Margaret Welsh

Personal Information

Margaret Welsh has been acting professionally since the age of 16. Her recent stage appearances include the Williamstown Theater Festival production of A.R. Gurney’s Big Bill directed by Mark Lamos, Jack O’Brien’s production of Twelfth Night at the Old Globe and Under The Blue Sky at Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse. New York theater credits include The Triumph of Love (Classic Stage Company), Peter Hedges’ Mrs. Neuberger Is Dead (Playwrights’ Horizons) and Good As New (Manhattan Class Company). Other stage credits include Arms and the Man and The Rivals for Mark Lamos (Hartford Stage), Private Lives and The Game of Love And Chance for Stephen Wadsworth (McCarter Theater) and The Enemy of the People, Picnic, Blithe Spirit, and The Importance of Being Earnest (all at the Longwharf Theater). Ms. Welsh’s film credits include James Ivory’s Mr. And Mrs. Bridge with Paul Newman, American Heart with Jeff Bridges, Smooth Talk with Laura Dern and Treat Williams and the upcoming Topa Topa Bluffs. She recently starred in the television pilot Are We There Yet? for the WB Network (filmed in Barcelona) and was a regular on the ABC show American Dreamer with Robert Urich and Carol Kane. She has appeared on The Practice, Judging Amy, NYPD Blue, The Division, Providence, etc., as well as the ABC movie A Killer Among Friends and Oprah Winfrey’s The Wedding. She makes her home in Los Angeles with her husband, actor John Michael Higgins, and her dog Bruno, where they all await their first child due in August 2004.

Credits

Actor

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Big Bill	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater	02/22/2004	Mary Garden/Suzanne Lenglen/Others
2	The Triumph of Love	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	03/29/1994	Leonide
3	Young Playwrights Festival (1992)	Playwrights Horizons	09/15/1992	Marah (Mrs. Neuberger)

Awards

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2004 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Featured Actress	Big Bill	Actor