Tovah Feldshuh

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Tovah Feldshuh, a six-time Emmy & Tony nominee, has been awarded three honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters. For her theatre work, she has won four Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circle, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the Theatre World, the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress. She is a playwright, concert artist, and author. Her first memoir, LILYVILLE: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I’ve Played, has been chosen as a “Must Read” by Good Morning America and was immediately ranked the Number One New Release in Parent and Adult Child Relationships on Amazon. Feldshuh is this year’s winner of THE AUDIE award for best narration of THE GIFT by Edith Eger. TV credits include: Holocaust, Law & Order, The Walking Dead, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend where Feldshuh can be seen singing the dignified showstopper: "Where's the Bathroom!". Films include: Kissing Jessica Stein, A Walk on the Moon, The Idolmaker, Golda’s Balcony the film, and Paramount Pictures’ Clifford(Nov. 2021 release). Broadway: Yentl, Golda’s Balcony, Irena’s Vow, Saravá!, Lend mea Tenor, Pippin etc. Before the pandemic, she created the role of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Sisters in Law by Jonathan Shapiro for its Los Angeles premier. On October 16th-17th, she was in concert in Tovah is LEONA!, playing the infamous Queen of Mean, Leona Helmsley, at the Mizner Performing Arts Center in Boca Raton. This summer, she portrayed Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Mark St. Germain’s one woman tour-de-force Becoming Dr. Ruth at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater. This production, under the baton of Scott Schwartz, is now on its way to New York and will open December 4th at the state-of-the-art Safra Hallin The Museum of Jewish Heritage mjhnyc.org. Tovah is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award, Hadassah's Myrtle Wreath & Mother of the Year Award and the Israel Peace Medal.

Follow Tovah on Instagram @tovahfeld, and on her website www.tovahfeldshuh.com.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: In honor of Tovah’s relationship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she donates to Hand in Hand. “Hand in Hand was established to combat one of Israel’s greatest existential threats: the growing social alienation and lack of trust between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel. We believe that education is key in changing this."

For more information, visit the website: https://www.handinhandk12.org/.