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Michele Pawk

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Actor b. 1961 On stage 19882025

Michele Pawk is an American actress and singer. She is also an associate theater professor. She is a Tony Award and Lucille Lortel Award winner, and a Grammy Award nominee.

On stage 12 productions, 37 years

1988 Mail Music Box Theatre · Original · directed by Andrew Cadiff 37 perf.
1992 Crazy for You Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Mike Ockrent 1,622 perf.
1996 Chicago Richard Rodgers Theatre · Revival · directed by Walter Bobbie 9,999 perf.
2000 Seussical Theatre not recorded · Original · directed by Frank Galati 198 perf.
2001 Mamma Mia ! Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Phyllida Lloyd 5,758 perf.
2002 Hollywood Arms Cort Theatre · Original 76 perf.
2003 Wicked Gershwin Theatre · Original · directed by Joe Mantello 8,500 perf.
2004 Democracy Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Blakemore 173 perf.
2005 Children and Art New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Lisa Shriver 1 perf.
2006 Losing Louie Biltmore Theatre · Original · directed by The Hampstead Theatre 53 perf.
2014 Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Stephen Sondheim Theatre · Original · directed by Marc Bruni 2,418 perf.
2025 Just in Time Circle in the Square Theatre · Original · directed by Alex Timbers

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Worked with more than once12 names

John Dossett 5 productions
Kevin Chamberlin 3 productions
Yuka Takara 2 productions
William Ryall 2 productions
Tom McGowan 2 productions
P. J. Benjamin 2 productions
NaTasha Yvette Williams 2 productions
Nancy Opel 2 productions
Michael Kubala 2 productions
Mary Testa 2 productions
Mary Ann Lamb 2 productions
Linda Mugleston 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 1 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on1 work

Cabaret

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In the literature8 passages

  • Hollywood Arms went on to open on Broadway October 31, 2002, starring Linda Lavin (brilliant as Nanny), Michele Pawk (heartbreaking as Mama), and Frank Wood (so very touching as Daddy). It closed early in 2003, winning a Tony Award for the beautiful Michele. My baby and I had gone the distance, thanks to Hal.ebooks/Burnett, Carol/This Time Together - Carol Burnett.txt
  • Leenya Rideout (left), Alan Cumming, and Michele Pawk in the 1998 Sam Mendes Broadway production of Cabaret . (Joan Marcus/Photofest)ebooks/Garebian, Keith/Making of Cabaret, The - Keith Garebian.txt
  • • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Michele Pawk, nominee)ebooks/Garebian, Keith/Making of Cabaret, The - Keith Garebian.txt
  • • Astaire Award for Best Dancer (The Kit Kat Girls & Boys: Joyce Chittick, Erin Hill, Kristin Olness, Michele Pawk, Christina Pawl, Leenya Rideout, Brian Duguay, Michael O’Donnell, Fred Rose, Bill Szobody )ebooks/Garebian, Keith/Making of Cabaret, The - Keith Garebian.txt
  • Cast: Natasha Richardson, Alan Cumming, Ron Rifkin, John Benjamin Hickey, Denis O’Hare, Michele Pawk, Mary Louise Wilsonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • During tech, I found this “Naughty Baby” lyric sheet on stage left that Michele Pawk had pasted to the wall when she did Crazy for You . Her husband, John Dossett, was our Herbie, and I remember pointing it out to him.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt

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