Gretchen Egolf is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on September 9, 1973 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Egolf has also performed in several American regional theatres. Her work was praised by critics in her productions Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire at The Guthrie Theater (directed by John Miller-Stephany), Emma in Betrayal at the Huntington Theatre Company (directed by Maria Aitken), Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Old Globe Theatre, Candida in Candida and Rosalind (As You Like It) at Pittsburgh Public Theater, Emily in Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues at Wilma Theater (Philadelphia) as well as other plays that she performed with Berkshire Theater Festival (including Hay Fever which she co-wrote with Joanne Woodward) and Barrington Stage Company which she has been an artistic associate
Egolf is involved with a range of videos and films by artists such as Beth Campbell’s Some Things Change (2005) as well as Adam Chodzko’s work Knots Tate Britain (2013) as in Chodzko’s Radio and performance work, Rising (2013), for a solo actor who performed it at the live stage of Newcastle, UK at the Great North Run/British Science Fest, as well as in Manchester University, UK at the Ways of Seeing Climate Change conference (October 2013). Egolf has also written pieces, including her guest appearance in the online art curatorial experiment Out of Focus. She also published a blog about her experience of rehearsals for Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire at The Guthrie Theater. as a director and producer; Egolf created and directed the short film Sonnet 147 for the New York Shakespeare Exchange’s Sonnet Project. She also co-produced and appeared as a character in the short movie Speck’s Last as well as the web-based series Selectmen.
Gretchen Egolf is most known for her many TV roles, including Journeyman (NBC 2007,), Roswell (WB, 2000) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC from 2009 to 2012) and many more as well as the TV films The Two Mr. Kissels (Lifetime 2008) and Gleason (CBS 2002).
After winning the Michel St. Denis Award for an Exceptional Graduating Drama Student from the Juilliard School, Egolf went on to perform on Broadway in Jackie, An American Life by Gip Hoppe (also in London’s West End) and Jean Anouilh’s Ring Round the Moon with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Broadway, directed by Gerald Gutierrez. Off-Broadway, Egolf has appeared in Davey Holmes’ More Lies About Jerzy at The Vineyard Theater and a number of new plays with Second Stage Theatre, The Flea Theater (in Polly Draper’s Getting Into Heaven), The Women’s Project Theatre, and Dodger Stages (now New World Stages) (in Modern Orthodox, directed by James Lapine).
