Positions
Biography
Peggy Dunne is a veteran actor, writer, director, and producer of the Chicago theater scene. Peggy has worked on stage at many of the Windy City’s most prestigious theaters, including The Goodman, Lookingglass, and Steppenwolf. She received the Best Newcomer Jack Springer Award for her performance as Vic in Away at Northlight Theatre, a production that also received an After Dark Award for Best Production. Upon graduating from The DePaul/Goodman School of Drama she cofounded and ran Theatre Of The Reconstruction for nine years. During her tenure there, in addition to acting, she directed Sam Shepard’s Cowboys #2 and Mad Dog Blues, Tennessee Williams’ A Perfect Analysis Given By A Parrott and W. Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge which she also adapted for the stage. Peggy also co-wrote, co-directed and performed in The Dimmed Heart, which won “Best of the Fest” at the Bailiwick Director’s Festival, was invited to several more festivals in Chicago, with a grand finale at Seattle’s Bumbershoot International Music and Arts Festival at Seattle Rep. Peggy’s monologues for actors have been published in two editions of Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays and on the actors’ websites The Monologue Shop and NowCasting. In Los Angeles Peggy has appeared on stage at several theaters. Some of her favorites are Terry in Pat Kane's hit Pulp and Margaret in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass (Ovation Recommended) has also appeared in guest star and co-star roles on ER, King of Queens, The West Wing, Medium, The Young and the Restless, Prison Break, Castle, to name a few, and most recently The Event and Hallmark Channel's A Taste of Romance. Film credits include the lead in the low-budget indie slasher Eyes of the Prey; supporting opposite Craig Bierko in Victimless Crimes; supporting in the award-winning short film Reflections of a Life (with Linda Gray), and the lead in festival highlight Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (with Randolph Mantooth).
Productions
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Actor Broken Glass (2011) |