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In February and March 2006, Dixie Carter premiered Kate Clark’s two character play, Southern Comforts, with her husband Hal Holbrook at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami. In October 2005, the Holbrooks appeared at Houston’s Alley Theatre in the world premiere of Be My Baby by Ken Ludwig. For ten weeks in the Spring of 2005, Ms. Carter performed to standing room only at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C. as Mrs. Erlynne in Oscar Wilde’s play, Lady Windermere’s Fan. She starred there in 1999 in another Wilde play, A Woman of No Importance, and at the Long Wharf Theatre in 2003 as Jacqueline Susanne in Paper Doll by Mark Hampton.
New York Credits:
Eleven seasons at The Café Carlyle.
Broadway-- Marquis Theatre: Thoroughly Modern Millie; John Golden
Theatre: Master Class (Maria Callas); Circle in the Square: Pal Joey
(Melba); Bijou Theatre: Sextet.
Off-Broadway-- New York Shakespeare
Festival: The Winter's Tale (Perdita); Public Theatre: Taken in
Marriage (Dixie Avalon), Fathers and Sons (Calamity Jane), Buried
Inside Extra (Liz Conlon), Gogol (Chained Woman), Jesse and the Bandit
Queen (Belle Starr); Music Theatre of Lincoln Center: Carousal, The
King and I, The Merry Widow; Astor Place Theatre: A Coupla' White
Chicks Sittin' Around Talkin'; Upstairs at the Downstairs.
Regional Credits:
Matrix Theatre, LA: Names (Stella Adler), A Streetcar Named Desire (Blanche DuBois), The Applecart, Kiss Me Kate, A Little Night Music, Mame, Babes in Arms, Oklahoma, Brigadoon, The King and I, The New Moon, The Student Prince, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night. In addition to her most well known television role, that of Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women, she has starred in seven other television series
Awards:
Southeastern Theatre Conference; National
Corporate Theatre Fund; The Shakespeare Theatre Millennium Recognition
Award; Theatre World Award: Jesse and the Bandit Queen; Drama Desk
Nomination: Fathers and Sons; Dramalogue: Names.
The Dixie Carter Performing Arts Center (The Dixie) opened in November 2005 in Huntingdon, Tennessee.
Born in McLemoresville, Tennessee, she is a graduate of the University of Memphis. She and Mr. Holbrook met while filming the CBS-TV movie, The Killing of Randy Webster. Carter and Holbrook reside in Los Angeles.
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