3/15/2023 0 Comments Quincy tyler bernstineGrowing up in Washington, the daughter of lawyers, she wasn’t a drama club kid. Bernstine might never have been an actor at all. She won her Obie in Lynn Nottage’s “Ruined,” and made her only Broadway appearance so far in Sarah Ruhl’s “In the Next Room, or the vibrator play.” Last season, eager to work with the director Phylicia Rashad on a Stephen Adly Guirgis revival, she went unusually brassy in “Our Lady of 121st Street.” Burns, a Post-Electric Play” (she played Bart Simpson), Heidi Schreck’s “Grand Concourse” and Bess Wohl’s “Small Mouth Sounds.” Bernstine has built, gravitating toward brainy work that challenges conventions and stretches forms - plays like Anne Washburn’s “Mr. “That sounds horrible, doesn’t it,” she said. “The jobs that are, I think, in the end most worth it are the ones that almost break you,” she continued with perfect calm. It pushed her, she said, “almost to the brink of wanting to give up.” Bernstine calls “Marys Seacole” the most challenging thing she has ever worked on. There wasn’t going to be nearly enough time. Bernstine looked at a calendar and panicked. It’s a mammoth part with monologues that stretch on and on, and Ms. (The plural in the title hints at universality.) She plays the title role, a formidable woman based on a historical figure, the adventuring 19th-century Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole. So in January, she was fresh from her honeymoon when she went into rehearsals for Jackie Sibblies Drury’s fractured, time-jumping biographical epic “Marys Seacole,” at LCT3. “And I had postponed it so many times, because of plays, that I had to go.” Bernstine said the other afternoon in her dressing room at Lincoln Center Theater. One of the most valuable performers in some of the boldest new Off Broadway work, she can seem almost omnipresent on New York stages. She received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from UC San Diego.The Obie Award-winning actress Quincy Tyler Bernstine got married last September on a rooftop in Brooklyn, but the honeymoon to St. Her film and television credits include Rachel Getting Married (directed by Jonathan Demme), HBO Voyeur, the pilot of Babylon Fields, Chappelle’s Show (Comedy Central), Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC) and All My Children (ABC). Her regional credits include work at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Sundance Institute Theater Lab, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Mark Taper Forum, among others. Her off-Broadway credits include The Misanthrope at New York Theatre Workshop Chicken at Studio Dante A Small, Melodramatic Story at The Public Theater/LAByrinth Theater Company ’nami at the Kirk Theater (I am) Nobody’s Lunch, The Ladies, Paris Commune and Gone Missing with The Civilians Matt & Ben at Performance Space 122 and The Trail of Her Inner Thigh with LAByrinth Theater Company, among others. ![]() Bernstine’s Chicago credits include the national tour of Matt & Ben. ![]() Quincy Tyler Bernstine most recently appeared at the Goodman in Ruined during the 2008/2009 Season.
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