Austin Pendleton is an actor, director, and playwright. He has acted in about 250 movies and appeared several times in such TV shows as  HOMICIDE, OZ, and the different versions of LAW AND ORDER.  Onstage in  New York he has acted on Broadway (CHOIR BOY, at Manhattan Theatre Club;  THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, with Natalie Portman; and as Motel the Tailor  in the original cast of Fiddler on the Roof); off-Broadway (Obie winner  for THE LAST SWEET DAYS OF ISAAC; ROSMERSHOLM, at Manhattan Theatre  Club; UP FROM PARADISE, a musical by Arthur Miller and Stanley  Silverman, at Jewish Rep; EDUCATING RITA, with Laurie Metcalf); and  off-off Broadway (title roles in KING LEAR, HAMLET, RICHARD THE THIRD,  RICHARD THE SECOND; new plays such as CITY GIRLS AND DESPERADOES, DRESS  OF FIRE, CONSIDER THE LILIES).  As a director he has been represented by  the premiere productions of: A THOUSAND PINES, by Matthew Greene;  BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY, by Stephen Adly Giurgis, which went on to  win the Pulitzer Prize; FIFTY WORDS, by Michael Weller, with Elizabeth  Marvel and Norbert Leo Butz; Chekhov productions at Classic Stage  Company such as THREE SISTERS (for which he won the Obie, and which  starred Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jessica Hecht), IVANOV,  which starred Ethan Hawke, and UNCLE VANYA, with Mamie Gummer; A LOVELY  SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR, by Tennessee Williams, with Kristine Nielsen and  Annette O’Toole; WAR OF THE ROSES (Shakespeare, at HB Studio); HAMLET  (also at CSC, with Peter Sarsgaard); THE LITTLE FOXES, on Broadway, with  Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton (five Tony nominations, one for  direction and three for actors, including Ms. Taylor and Ms. Stapleton).   He has written three plays: ORSON’S SHADOW (which ran off-Broadway for a  year and was then done in London); UNCLE BOB, (which ran at the Mint  Theatre in New York, and was then done in Paris, translated by  Jean-Marie Besset), and BOOTH, which was done in New York starring Frank  Langella. All of these plays have been published and have been done  frequently around the United States. He has taught at HB since 1969.