Jane White (Understudy Big Mama) Created role of The Queen opposite Carol Burnett in Once Upon a Mattress (Off-Bway, Bway, two CBS-TV specials).  First actress of color to play Helen of Troy in The Trojan Women, Circle in The Square).  First actress of color to appear at Joseph Papp's NY Shakespeare Festival (Kate, The Taming of the Shrew).  Metropolitan Opera: “Andromache,” Les Troyens with Placido Domingo.   Carnegie and Town Hall concerts under aegis of Bobby Short, cabaret appearances at Feinstein's.  OBIE for “Volumnia” in Coriolanus, LA Critics Award “The Mother” in Blood Wedding; Take Wing and Soar Award 2006.  Trumpets of the Lord (Rome, Paris and PBS). Jane White, Who...?, Follies.

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