Ellen Adair

THIS SEASON: Portia in The Merchant of Venice; Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew; Katherine and the Boy in Henry V.
OTHER THEATRES: Raina in Arms and the Man (Lyric Stage Company, Boston, MA); Thomasina in Arcadia, Geoffrey Dunderbread, Lady Lettice in The Beard of Avon, and Luce in Comedy of Errors (Publick Theatre, Boston, MA); Diana in All’s Well That Ends Well (Actor’s Shakespeare Project, Boston, MA); Girl, Gladys in Five by Tenn (SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston, MA); Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Margot in The Diary of Anne Frank (New Repertory Theatre on Tour, Boston, MA); Nora in A Doll’s House (Small World Big Sky Productions, Boston, MA); u/s Izzy in Rabbit Hole and u/s Carol in Carol Mulroney (Huntington Theatre Company, Boston, MA); Puck, Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Juliet, Sampson in Romeo and Juliet, and Malcolm, Witch in Macbeth (ShakespeareNow, Boston, MA); Eliza in Pygmalion (Longwood Players, Boston, MA); Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Indiana Shakespeare Company, Bloomington, IN).
TV/FILM: Jamie Finnerty in “Brotherhood” (Showtime), Anna Alcott in Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Audubon in John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature, and Louis’s Lady in Louis Brandeis: The People’s Attorney (PBS).
AWARDS: Independent Reviewers of New England nomination for Best Actress for Arcadia, Addison Award for Best Actress in a Comedy for Pygmalion, Addison Award for Best Ensemble for A Doll’s House, Elliot Norton Awards for Arcadia and Five by Tenn.
EDUCATION: B.A. in English and Theatre from Boston University; American Repertory Theatre/ Moscow Art Theatre, Stanislavski Summer School 2001; Shakespeare & Company, Summer Training
Institute, 2002 and 2003.