2024Nominee
Best Performance
Joker: Folie à Deux
June Carryl
Actor
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
June 10, 1967
Biography
Playwright and actor who grew up in Denver, Colorado. Starting out in Political Science at Brown, intending to be a lawyer, she bailed on the last round of LSAT's and pursued a Ph.D. in English Literature instead. She wrote a play for her midterm in a Drama survey course taught by Paula Vogel (How I Learned To Drive, The Baltimore Waltz) who invited to join her playwriting class where she studied with two of the best writers to come out of that or any program, Pulitzer Prize Winner Nilo Cruz (Night Train to Bolina, Anna in the Tropics) and the late John C. Russell (Stupid Kids), as well as guest artists Aisha Rahman and Anna Deavere Smith.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2001Nominee
Best Performance
Sweet November
1998Nominee
Best Performance
What Dreams May Come
Career Highlights
2018Highlight
Best Performance
Under the Silver Lake
2020Highlight
Best Performance
Wander Darkly
Video
Joker: Folie à Deux
Sweet November
What Dreams May Come