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JAMES NAUGHTON The Master Builder (Irish Rep) is the winner of two Tony Awards as Best Actor in a Musical, for his portrayal of media-savvy lawyer Billy Flynn in the Broadway hit Chicago (1997) and for his role as a film-noir era detective in City of Angels (1990), which also earned him a Drama Desk Award. A graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, Mr. Naughton made his New York debut as Edmund in Arvin Brown's production of Long Day's Journey Into Night, with Robert Ryan and Geraldine Fitzgerald. His other Broadway credits include I Love My Wife, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, Whose Life Is It Anyway? and Democracy. Off-Broadway, he has appeared in E.L. Doctorow's Drinks Before Dinner and Losing Time. Among Mr. Naughton's many directing credits are Our Town (starring Paul Newman) on Broadway and also on TV for Showtime, the Tony nominated production of The Price, and recently Surface to Air at Symphony Space, and Hot 'N' Cole at Westport Playhouse. Mr. Naughton's recent film credits include Factory Girl, The Devil Wears Prada, Suburban Girl and Childless, The Good Mother, (opposite Diane Keaton); The Glass Menagerie (with Joanne Woodward); The Paper Chase, First Kid, Cat's Eye, A Stranger is Watching, Second Wind, and Labor Pains. Television movies include The Birds II, The Bunker, and Look Homeward Angel. Network series include Who's the Boss?, Making the Grade, Planet of the Apes, Faraday and Co., Brooklyn Bridge, The Cosby Mysteries, and Ally McBeal, as the title character's father. His solo show James Naughton Streets of Dreams was first presented by Mike Nichols in New York and toured successfully all over the country. His debut album, It's About Time is on DRG Records.
Bio as of October, 2008.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Working in the Theatre (video)
Performance - September, 1998 - Watch now.
Downstage Center (audio)
James Naughton - October, 2008 - Listen Now.
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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