Tovah Feldshuh

 UPI has called it "an inspired performance", and The New York Times says, "She does more than just resurrect Meir: she embodies an entire country."

In her speeches Tova Feldshuh will present "The Journey to Golda’s Balcony," a descriptive and entertaining account of her portrayal of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, in the 15 month Broadway run of "Golda's Balcony."

For her work on the New York Stage, from Yentl to Sarava to Lend Me a Tenor, Tovah Feldshuh has won:

• 3 Tony Nominations for Best Actress,

• 3 Drama Desk Awards,

• 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards,

• The Obie, and the Theatre World Awards

Tovah Feldshuh, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, began her career when she won the McKnight Fellowship in acting to the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, where she created over twenty roles in two seasons. She made her Broadway debut in the musical Cyrano, starring Christopher Plummer. Within 18 months of her arrival in New York, she starred in the play Yentl. Some of her other New York credits include the title roles in the Roundabout Theatre's She Stoops to Conquer and Mistress of the Inn, BAM's Three Sisters with Rosemary Harris and Ellen Burstyn, the long-running hit The Vagina Monologues, and roles on Broadway in Cyrano with Christopher Plummer, Rodgers and Hart, and Dreyfus in Rehearsal. She starred off-Broadway as Tallulah Bankhead in a piece she wrote entitled Tallulah Hallelujah!, which was chosen as one of the ten Best Plays of the Year by USA Today. Among other roles, Ms. Feldshuh has portrayed: Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop, Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Sarah Bernhardt, Stella Adler, Sophie Tucker, Katharine Hepburn, three queens of Henry VIII, and nine Jews from birth to death in off-Broadway's Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh.

For her television work, Ms. Feldshuh received the Emmy nomination for her electrifying performance as Helena, the Czech freedom fighter, in the NBC miniseries Holocaust. She has starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones in The Amazing Howard Hughes, James Woods in Citizen Cohn, and Bill Cosby on The Cosby Mysteries and The Cosby Show, among many others. She has a recurring role as Danielle Melnick on Law and Order and played Dr. Bethany Rose on As the World Turns for over a year. Her films include: A Walk on the Moon, for which she received rave reviews, and Kissing Jessica Stein, Happy Accidents with Marisa Tomei, Friends and Family, 3 Little Wolffs, and Old Love which was selected for the Venice Film Festival. She also appeared in The Corruptor, Nunzio, Cheaper to Keep Her, Daniel, Brewster's Millions, The Idolmaker, The Blue Iguana, A Day in October, and Charlie Hoboken.

Tovah Feldshuh made her cabaret debut at the famed Algonquin Oak Room in her act, Tovah: Crossovah! From Broadway to Cabaret, followed by 8 sold-out weeks off-Broadway of her one-woman show Tovah: Out of Her Mind! She has toured the world with this show, playing such diverse places from the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, to the Wentworth Ballroom in Sydney, Australia. From the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City to the Ross Perot Center in Dallas with Houston, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Hong Kong in between. In New York, she performed for Lyrics and Lyricists with Liza Minnelli, and in Washington, D.C. was Mistress of Ceremonies for the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center. The Boston Globe selected her as best Cabaret Artist of 2000.

For her charity work, she is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award, Hadassah's Myrtle Wreath and the Israel Peace Medal.