Beth Jane Porter (born May , ) is an American stage, film and
television actress and writer, who has worked in Britain for most of
her career. She became a British citizen in .Beth Porter made her
first professional appearance at age in a Westchester County touring
company. She studied acting on scholarship at the Stratford
Connecticut Shakespeare Festival and with Helen Menken at the American
Theatre Wing before completing dramatic studies at Bard College, New
York University, and Hunter College at The City University of New York
[CUNY].After appearing in the American premiere of Jules Romain's
Donogoo in at the Greenwich Mews Theatre, Isaac Babel's Sunset at the
Chelsea Theater Center in , and later that year as the star of David
Starkweather's Ascent at The Playwrights Workshop, Porter was chosen
as a member of original Obie Award-winning New York LaMaMa Troupe
under director Tom O'Horgan (Hair), where she starred in the play and
later film of Futz!, and featured in Paul Foster's Tom Paine and
Melodrama Play by Sam Shepard. A critic declared of her co-starring
role in Futz!: "Beth Porter makes the Whore of Babylon look like the
Singing Nun."Ellen Stewart and Tom O'Horgan invited Porter and her
Scots husband Peter Reid to co-found the first foreign branch of
LaMaMa, based in the UK. Known as The Wherehouse La MaMa with Porter
as its administrative director, it operated as a touring company
throughout Europe and guest appearing at La MaMa New York. Porter
featured in their plays, including Groupjuice, Little Mother by Ross
Alexander, The Hilton Keen Show, Hump, a dramatization of the novel by
David Benedictus.
television actress and writer, who has worked in Britain for most of
her career. She became a British citizen in .Beth Porter made her
first professional appearance at age in a Westchester County touring
company. She studied acting on scholarship at the Stratford
Connecticut Shakespeare Festival and with Helen Menken at the American
Theatre Wing before completing dramatic studies at Bard College, New
York University, and Hunter College at The City University of New York
[CUNY].After appearing in the American premiere of Jules Romain's
Donogoo in at the Greenwich Mews Theatre, Isaac Babel's Sunset at the
Chelsea Theater Center in , and later that year as the star of David
Starkweather's Ascent at The Playwrights Workshop, Porter was chosen
as a member of original Obie Award-winning New York LaMaMa Troupe
under director Tom O'Horgan (Hair), where she starred in the play and
later film of Futz!, and featured in Paul Foster's Tom Paine and
Melodrama Play by Sam Shepard. A critic declared of her co-starring
role in Futz!: "Beth Porter makes the Whore of Babylon look like the
Singing Nun."Ellen Stewart and Tom O'Horgan invited Porter and her
Scots husband Peter Reid to co-found the first foreign branch of
LaMaMa, based in the UK. Known as The Wherehouse La MaMa with Porter
as its administrative director, it operated as a touring company
throughout Europe and guest appearing at La MaMa New York. Porter
featured in their plays, including Groupjuice, Little Mother by Ross
Alexander, The Hilton Keen Show, Hump, a dramatization of the novel by
David Benedictus.
Share this
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
Join us for free and get valuable content delivered right through your inbox.