Television and film Gretchen Egolf is most known for her various television roles, including
Journeyman (NBC, 2007),
Roswell (WB, 2000), and
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 2009–2012), among others, and the TV movies
The Two Mr. Kissels (Lifetime 2008) and
Gleason (CBS, 2002). Her film roles include
The Talented Mr. Ripley,
The Namesake, and
Quiz Show.
Theatre 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). Egolf has also worked in many American regional theaters. She received critical acclaim for her
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) and other plays with Berkshire Theater Festival (including
Hay Fever with
Joanne Woodward) and
Barrington Stage Company, with whom she is an Artistic Associate
Other projects Egolf has been involved in a number of artist films and videos, including
Beth Campbell’s
Some Things Change (2005), and
Adam Chodzko’s video installation
Knots at
Tate Britain (2013) as well as Chodzko's radio and performance piece,
Rising (2013), for solo actor, which she performed live in Newcastle, UK at the
Great North Run/British Science Festival, and at
Manchester University, UK at the
Ways of Seeing Climate Change conference (October 2013). Egolf has also created written works, such as her invited guest contribution to the online experimental art curatorial project
Out of Focus. She also wrote a blog of her rehearsal experience playing
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 and co-produced and starred in the short film ''Speck's Last
and the web series Selectmen''.
Teaching Egolf is a teacher of the
Michael Chekhov acting technique. She has taught in the US at
The Guthrie Theater and
Barrington Stage Company, as well as independent classes in New York City, and in London at the
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama,
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and independent classes. == Personal life ==