Joan Tewkesbury | |
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| Born | (1936-04-08)April 8, 1936 (age 89) |
| Occupations | Film and television actress, director, and screenwriter |
Joan Tewkesbury (born April 8, 1936) is an American film and television director, writer, producer, choreographer and actress. She had a long association with the celebrated directorRobert Altman, writing the screenplays forThieves Like Us (1974), andNashville (1975), widely regarded as "Altman's masterpiece", and which earned her a nomination for theBAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.[1]
Tewkesbury began her career at age ten as a dancer inThe Unfinished Dance withMargaret O'Brien andCyd Charisse. One of her early television acting roles was in a guest appearance on the short-livedNBC dramaIt's a Man's World.
Tewkesbury collaborated with Altman on several of his films, includingMcCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971, as a script supervisor) andThieves Like Us (1974, her first credit as a feature writer). She then wroteNashville, which she had proposed to Altman prior to his filming ofMcCabe & Mrs. Miller; he became interested in the setting and sent Tewkesbury to Nashville in the fall of 1973 to observe the area and its citizenry.[2] Tewkesbury's diary of her trip provided the basis for the screenplay, with many observations making it into the finished film, such as the highway pileup.[3] Tewkesbury wrote and directed numerous hours of episodic television, including forDisney,HBO,CBS,TNT, andNBC. She has also directedoff-Broadway, co-choreographed and directed for theOregon Ballet Theatre and performed, written and directed for theEdinburgh Festival Fringe. Her play,The Retrospective, was presented at the Manhattan Theatre Source.
In 2011, Tewkesbury published her first novel,Ebba and the Green Dresses of Olivia Gomez in a Time of Conflict and War.[4]
She has also taught screenwriting, at theUniversity of Southern California, with her workshop “Designed Obstacles, Spontaneous Response” travelling throughout the United States, Israel, and Japan.[5] Since 2003, Tewkesbury has lived inTesuque, New Mexico.
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