In his autobiography, Just One More Thing ( 2006 ), Falk said that his selection for the film from thousands of other Off-Broadway actors was a " miracle " that " made my career " and that without it, he would not have gotten the other significant movie roles that he later played.

Keitel studied under both Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg and at the HB Studio, eventually landing roles in some Off-Broadway productions.

Tomei has also done substantial work in the theater, including taking lead roles on Broadway in Wait Until Dark ( 1998 ) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( 2003 ) alongside Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest as well as many Off-Broadway plays such as Tony Kushner's Slavs!

Willard has several stage roles to his credit, including Off-Broadway performances in “ Little Murders ,” directed by Alan Arkin, and “ Arf ,” directed by Richard Benjamin.

Rodriguez is a stage actor and singer best known for his roles in the Broadway stage musical Rent, as Angel, and the Off-Broadway musical Zanna, Don't !, as Zanna.

Amy Davis Irving ( born September 10, 1953 ) is an American actress, known for her roles in the films Crossing Delancey, The Fury, Carrie, and Yentl as well as roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway.

Colleen Rose Dewhurst ( June 3, 1924 – August 22, 1991 ) was a Canadian-American actress known most for theatre roles, and for a while as " the Queen of Off-Broadway.

Jefferson Mays starred in the Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, playing some forty roles.

She played serious roles in the Off-Broadway productions, Picnic and Antigone.

Stanley Tucci appears in one of his earliest roles as an old, disliked acquaintance of Ira's, who takes up playwriting on a whim and instantly becomes the toast of Off-Broadway.

After graduating from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Jennifer Bassey moved back to the United States and took roles in many Off-Broadway plays.

Throughout the 1990s Shenkman combined work in Off-Broadway productions in NY with small roles in films such as Eraser ( 1996 ), The Siege ( 1998 ), π ( 1998 ), and Jesus ' Son ( 1999 ), Chasing Sleep ( 2000 ), and Requiem for a Dream ( 2000 ).

Clark's stage work includes roles in the Broadway musicals Sunday in the Park with George ( 1985 ), Guys and Dolls ( 1992-93 ), A Grand Night for Singing ( 1993-94 ), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1995-96, as Smitty ), Titanic ( 1997-99, creating the role of Alice Beane ), Cabaret ( 1999-2000, as Fraulein Kost ) and Urinetown ( 2003, as Penelope Pennywise ), as well as numerous roles Off-Broadway, in national tours and in regional theatre.

Barnhart made her Broadway debut in 2003 and is a featured performer in the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, in which she also appeared Off-Broadway and also continues to play the roles that she originated on the said musical.

Throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s she appeared in numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including starring roles in Simon Gray's Butley and A. R. Gurney's The Cocktail Hour ; for the latter she was nominated for a Drama Desk award.

Other credits Off-Broadway include Travels With My Aunt ( Drama Desk Award / Lucille Lortel Award / Outer Critics Award ), Privates On Parade, The Taming of the Shrew, The Invisible Man, The Music Man, Comedians ( Drama Desk Award nomination and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination ), A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Address Unknown and The Threepenny Opera ( Drama Desk Award / Outer Critics ' Award / The Richard Seff Award and a Tony Award nomination ).

His other early Off-Broadway credits include the role of Doug in the premiere of Michael Shurtleff's Call Me By My Rightful Name on January 31, 1961 at One Sheridan Square and the role of Bob Smith in the premiere of William Snyder's The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker on September 17, 1962 until June 9, 1963 at the Sheridan Square Playhouse.

Her Off-Broadway credits include Ron Taylor and Mayor Maggie in Bat Boy The Musical at Union Square Theatre, The Prince and the Pauper at The Lamb's Theatre, O ' Casey Knock at The John Houseman Theatre, Tango Ballad at The Actor's Studio and A Broadway's Diva Christmas at the Julia Miles Theatre.

Her other theatre credits include the Off-Broadway production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois with Hal Holbrook in 1963, Many Loves, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, and Nite Club Confidential.

Meola's non-soccer ventures include trying out as a placekicker with NFL's New York Jets in July 1994, appearing Off-Broadway in Tony and Tina's Wedding in 1995, and running his own mortgage firm.

Kuhn's Off-Broadway and regional theater credits in this period include: As Thousands Cheer in 1998 Off-Broadway at the Drama Dept., Greenwich House Theater ; Strike up the Band in 1998 Off-Broadway Encores!

His theatre credits include David Marshall Grant's Snakebit ( Off-Broadway at the Century Center and in Los Angeles at the Coast Playhouse ), South Coast Repertory ( Noises Off, Taking Steps, The Real Thing ), The Antaeus Company ( Peace In Our Time, The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8: 30, Sinan Unel's Pera Palas ), Black Dahlia Theatre ( Jonathan Tolins ' Secrets of the Trade, Richard Kramer's Theater District, both directed by Matt Shakman ), The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble ( Bach at Leipzig, Small Tragedy ), L. A. Theatre Works ( The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial ), and Pasadena Playhouse ( If Memory Serves ).

Awards include an Emmy nomination, the American Alliance for Theatre and Education Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, the AT & T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, the AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, two TCG Extended Collaboration Grants, Aristophanes Award for Best Off-Broadway Comedy, First Place in the Southwest Festival of New Plays, Heideman Finalist for Actors Theatre Louisville, Best of the CATCO Shorts Festival, the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Creative Workforce Fellowship, and four Ohio Arts Individual Excellence Awards.

Off-Broadway, she has appeared in Three Sisters and Talking Heads, and her Broadway credits include On the Twentieth Century, the 1979 revival of Oklahoma!

Additionally, her many accomplishments include: a singer / dancer who entertained the troops in Lebanon with Bob Hope ; an actress who has appeared in over 60 feature films, TV films and miniseries ; the star of three Off-Broadway plays ; an award-winning playwright for the first theatrical adaptation of They Shoot Horses, Don ’ t They ; an inspirational teacher of at-risk youth behind prison walls ; a member of the Board of Directors of the Congressional Awards confirmed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ; a Special Ambassador to Children for the United Nations and author of the book published by Simon & Schuster entitled, Let the Magic Begin.

Her Off-Broadway credits include Mayo Simon's two-person play These Men ( 1980 ) and Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play ( 1982 ).

Off-Broadway awards include two nominations for the Drama Desk Award for " Outstanding Actress in a Play " in 1998, for a revival of Eugene O ' Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night at the Irish Repertory Theaterand in 2005, for the World War I drama Echoes of the War.

Winners include One Man, Two Guvnors as Outstanding New Broadway Play, Once as Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, and Michael John LaChiusa's Queen of the Mist as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical.

King is a member of the Joseph Jefferson Theatre Company, and her professional credits include summer stock and Off-Broadway productions.

He was featured alongside Chevy Chase and John Belushi in the Off-Broadway revue National Lampoon's Lemmings.

Alternating between film, TV and stage, she did projects like the 1982 ABC-movie My Body, My Child, the features Prince of the City ( 1981 ) and I Am the Cheese ( 1983 ), and the 1982 Off-Broadway productions of John Guare's Lydie Breeze.

This was followed by Off-Broadway rock musicals like Bat Boy: The Musical ( 1997 ) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch ( 1998 ), John Cameron Mitchell's Off-Broadway show about a transgendered rocker.

An Off-Broadway revival directed by John Doyle is scheduled for February 2013.

Van Ark also appeared Off-Broadway opposite John Rubenstein in Love Letters.

Dempsey has also made notable appearances in the stage productions of On Golden Pond, with the Maine Acting Company, and as Timmy ( the Martin Sheen role ) in a 1990 Off-Broadway revival of The Subject Was Roses co-starring with John Mahoney and Dana Ivey at the Roundabout Theatre in New York.

She also played the role of Lynette " Squeaky " Fromme in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical Assassins Off-Broadway in 1990-1991.

The Acting Company presented an Off-Broadway production at the American Place Theater from May 9, 1983 to May 29, 1983, directed by John Houseman and featuring a spoken introduction by Houseman, and starring Patti LuPone.

After playing Off-Broadway, it transferred in July 2003 to Broadway's John Golden Theatre, where it proved both a critical and popular success, winning the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical, and earning Lopez and Marx a 2004 Tony Award for their musical score.

Off-Broadway, Thompson played the lead role of Charlotte in the Michael John LaChiusa musical, Little Fish at the Second Stage Theatre.

It ran Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre during the summer of 2002, with a cast that included Becca Ayers as Sarah, and John Lloyd Young as Caleb.

* All Night Long, a 1984 play by John O ' Keefe that featured Alyssa Milano in its original Off-Broadway production

She has appeared in many Off-Broadway productions, including the musical Francis in 1981 at the York Theatre at St. Peter's, The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1985 at the Public Theater's Delacorte Theatre, Birds of Paradise in 1987 ( Promenade Theatre ), Privates on Parade ( Roundabout Theatre ) in 1989, the musical Song of Singapore in 1991, the Michael John LaChiusa musical Hello Again at the Lincoln Center Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in 1993, Twelve Dreams at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in 1995, and Helen at the Public Theater / New York Shakespeare Festival in 2002.

* John Shea at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

People Are Wrong is a 2004 Off-Broadway musical written by Robin Goldwasser and Julia Greenberg, and stars John Flansburgh, Robin Goldwasser's husband, from the band They Might Be Giants.

Also, in 2012, Rhys is set to play " Jimmy " with the Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger.