Now at the Gaslight...

All performances will take place at the Roberts Orpheum Theater



June 12 - 17, 2012

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

by Dale Wasserman/based on the novel by Ken Kesey
Starring Academy Award® nominee Kathleen Quinlan

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Kathleen Quinlan naively began her career in Theater at the age of 16 running lights at the Mill Valley Center for Performing Arts which premiered little known plays like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. She later moved on to bigger things, running lights, for the Marin Shakespeare Festival.

Her first film performance was in “American Graffitti”. She is now is best known for her performance in “Apollo 13” as Marilyn Lovell, which earned her an Academy Award Nomination. However, prior to this she was given The Theater World “Newcomer of the Year” Award, for her performance as Annie in “Taken in Marriage”. She was making her professional stage debut with Dixie Carter, Elizabeth Wilson, Nancy Marchand, an up and coming Meyrl Streep and eventually, Colleen Dewhurst at Jospeph Papp’s Public Theater.

Other theater credits included “Uncommon Women and Others” at the Los Angeles Stage Company. “Accent on Youth” at The Long Wharf Theater, and her last foray onto “the boards” was “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” as Madame de Tourvelle with Frank Langella and Lynn Redgrave.

She has made 38 movies and 49 television appearances as well as her series “Family Law”.

She lives a quiet life in Malibu with her husband, designer Bruce Abbott who was also an Actor and is “my best coach”. She has two sons,Tyler, a Crossfit Instructor and Dalton (inherited from Bruce) who just graduated from UCLA. In between jobs she loves to work on their Ranch in Ventura.

This is her first return to Theater since 1988. “ I am grateful to The Orpheum Theater and St. Louis Actors' Studio for this opportunity and my entrée back into the Theater”.