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Bill Irwin
is a Tony Award-winning actor, director, writer and clown. Original works include The Regard of Flight, Largely New York (four Tony Award nominations), Fool Moon (Tony Award winner, created with David Shiner and Nancy Harrington), Old Hats, The Happiness Lecture and others. He has played in many Broadway, off-Broadway and regional stage productions, including On Beckett; The Iceman Cometh; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play); The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?; Waiting for Godot (2009 Drama Desk Award nomination); Endgame; The Tempest; Texts for Nothing; The Garden of Earthly Delights; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; and Show Boat. On TV, Irwin appears as Mr. Noodle in “Elmo’s World” and Cary Loudermilk in “Legion.” He also created The Regard of Flight for “Great Performances” on PBS with Doug Skinner, Michael O’Connor and Nancy Harrington. Selected film credits include Rachel Getting Married, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Eight Men Out, Interstellar, Stepping Out and The Unsilent Picture. Irwin was an original member of Kraken Theatre Company directed by Herbert Blau as well as an original member of the Pickle Family Circus with Larry Pisoni and Geoff Hoyle. Irwin is a grateful recipient of fellowships from MacArthur, Guggenheim, Fulbright and National Endowment for the Arts.
