Elizabeth franz7/25/2023 ![]() ![]() She made her Broadway debut in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Linda Loman in the fiftieth Anniversary revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman on Broadway in 1999. Noting that good roles for women of a certain age are scarce, she said, “I feel the most fortunate actress in the world because I can continue to do it, even in movies and television.”įranz continues a long, successful career. That’s what is so charming about this play-it speaks about getting older, friendships, and is filled with love.’ “There are more roles for older actors because more plays are being written about older people. She said the aging Baby Boomers offer more opportunities for shows about the older population. Hal Holbrook is a great friend and he is always saying, ‘Isn’t it wonderful to play our own age?’ When he started playing Mark Twain (in 1954) he had to make up for two hours. She said she could project herself forward over the decades because, “My mother had so many sisters and I studied them as young girl. When I was in my 20s I was playing 70- and 80-year-olds.” “I have been very fortunate, because I was always an old soul and I could always do character roles. “It’s been wonderful to play a character that is my own age,” said the 75-year-old actor. “You do hear the opera and we perform it, but I won’t tell the secret of how we do it,” she said coyly. Franz, who sang once on stage as a young actor in My Fair Lady, reveals only that the cast does sing at the end. In the film, the viewer is left wondering how the director will handle the moment when the actors are to sing. She said she believes the film adaptation of the play was very well done. Preparing the play has been a “truly delicious time.” Franz stars as “Jean,” alongside real life husband and wife actors, Joseph Hindy as “Reginald” and Patricia McAneny as “Cecily.” Greg Mullavey, who has appeared in television’s iCarly and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, appears as “Wilfred.” “He was an actor and singer himself, and I think those are the best directors because they know the process and they don’t get in your way.” “I knew he was the perfect director for it because he has a musical background,” she said. A concert is about to take place to celebrate Verdi’s birthday and the dramatic tension revolves around whether these four former stars will recreate their acclaimed quartet from Verdi’s masterpiece, Rigoletto. She said she knew Simpkins would be the perfect director for this story about four aging opera singers who have ended up in the same retirement home for artists. Quartet is familiar to many through its 2013 film adaptation, directed by Dustin Hoffman and starring Maggie Smith. He wanted me to appear in Sharon and said, ‘Do you have a play you would like to pass on to me that you would be interested in doing?’” I had done Quartet two summers ago in San Diego at the Globe, but we did it in the round there and it didn’t really work. “I met John last summer and he kind of courted me,” she said. 6 (1998): 443.A courtship that began a year ago will be consummated Thursday when Tony Award- winning actor Elizabeth Franz takes the stage at Sharon Playhouse in her first local performance, starring in one of her favorite plays, Quartet.įranz, who has had a home in Warren for forty years, first met Playhouse artistic director John Simpkins a year ago. "Bimanual coupling in amputees with phantom limbs." Nature Neuroscience 1, no. "Spatial conceptual influences on the coordination of bimanual actions: When a dual task becomes a single task." Journal of Motor Behavior 33, no. Zelaznik, Stephan Swinnen, and Charles Walter. "Dissociation of spatial and temporal coupling in the bimanual movements of callosotomy patients." Psychological Science 7, no. "Spatial topological constraints in a bimanual task." Acta Psychologica 77, no. Since 2004 Franz has directed the cognitive neuroscience program at Otago. ![]() Academic career Īfter a 1988 MSc titled 'An examination of the spatial and temporal limitations in bimanual coordination.' at the Purdue University, further PhD, and post-docs at UC Berkeley, Franz moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor. 'Liz' Franz is a New Zealand academic neuroscientist, as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Otago. An examination of the spatial and temporal limitations in bimanual coordination. ![]()
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