Mark Cortale proudly presents An Evening with Debra Messing & Kathy Najimy, for one night only on August 4th at 6:30pm, as part of The Town Hall series. Join two these two great friends and extraordinary talents for an evening of conversation, riveting monologues and a Q&A, with Brian Nash at the piano. Our 2019 Town Hall series is raising funds for Sandy Hook Promise https://www.sandyhookpromise.org
Debra Messing is best known for her role on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated comedy series “Will & Grace.” Messing reprised her role as Grace Adler on NBC’s revival of the show, alongside the entire original creative team, currently entering its third and final season. Messing was nominated for a 2019 Golden Globe Award in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series Musical or Comedy, as well as a 2019 Critics Choice Award in the category of Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
Recently, Messing appeared alongside John Cho, in the feature film thriller, Searching, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. Messing also starred in ABC’s three-hour remake of Dirty Dancing and in the NBC series “The Mysteries of Laura.” In 2012 and 2013, Messing starred as Julia Houston in NBC’s “Smash,” a musical drama about the creation of a new Broadway show.
In 2014, Messing made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-nominated production of John Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar. Other theatre credits include Donald Marguiles Pulitzer Prize-finalist Collected Stories and Paul Rudnick’s Off-Broadway play, The Naked Truth. Her film work includes the box office hit Along Came Polly and The Wedding Date.
Messing is the Global Health Ambassador for Population Services International (PSI), focusing on HIV/AIDS and has traveled extensively in Africa, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa and Global Health.
Kathy Najmy can be seen in the Netflix film Dumplin and the new untitled Sia Furler project. Ms. Najimy recurred for 4 years on HBO’s “VEEP,” on “Younger,” “Graves” and “The Good Witch.” She starred for a season on “Unforgettable,” as the captain of the NYC crimes police force. Kathy voiced Peggy Hill (14 seasons) on the Emmy Award-winning Fox hit “King of the Hill,” for which she received several awards. She also starred as Olive Massery for three seasons on “Veronica’s Closet,” with Kirstie Alley, one season on “The Big C” and “Numb3rs” and is renowned as the Evil Witch in Disney’s hit “The Descendants.”
In the theatre, she starred as legendary Mae West on Broadway in the Dirty Blonde, to critical acclaim and later reprised the role in the West Coast premiere at The Old Globe Theater (Outer Critics Circle Best Actress). With Mo Gaffney, Najimy starred in and wrote The Kathy and Mo Show, their long-running feminist Off-Broadway play, garnering an Obie Award. They also filmed two HBO specials, “Parallel Lives” and “Kathy and Mo: The Darkside” (Ace and ACA awards for Actor and Executive Producer).
Kathy recently created the Off-Broadway hit, Gloria: A Life, about the life of Gloria Steinem. She’s helming a documentary, Blue Woman Red Town: A journey into America, to meet the 53% of white married women who voted for Trump and recently finished directing her first original short film, The Secret Club.
Najimy is internationally known for her portrayal of Sister Mary Patrick in the blockbuster hits Sister Act and Sister Act 2, which won her an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress and the Hollywood Women’s Press Club – Female Discovery of the Year. Her resume includes work in over 20 films including starring roles in Hocus Pocus, Rat Race, Tyler Perry’s Madea Christmas and Say Uncle (Philadelphia Film Festival Best Actress) and has appeared in Hope Floats, Nevada, Step Up 3D, Zack and Reba, This Is My Life, The Fisher King, Soapdish, The Hard Way, Bam Bam and Celeste, Two Sisters, Its Pat, The Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez, Jeffrey, The Big K, HBO’s If These Walls Could Talk 2 with Ellen DeGeneres and The Guilt Trip, with Barbra Streisand. Her additional TV projects include: “Five,” directed by Jennifer Aniston, “Desperate Housewives,” “Drop Dead Diva,” “Franklin and Bash,” “Ugly Betty,” “Socio; Men At Work,” “Mr. Sunshine” and a recurring role on ABC’s “Make It or Break It.”
Najimy performed at Madison Square Garden to benefit V Day in The Vagina Monologues and is currently writing her solo show for the New York stage, Lift Up Your Skirt. She also directed the East and West Coast premieres of the acclaimed off-Broadway hit Back to Bacharach and David, as well as several other stage projects.
She starred in Pixar’s Oscar-winning animated feature WALL-E and has voiced characters for the animated features Tinkerbell, Brother Bear 2, Cats Don’t Dance and The Jungle Book.
For her over 40 years of AIDS activism, Najimy has been honored with the GMHC Howard Ashman Lifetime achievement award, the L.A. Shantis Founder award as well as the LA Gay and Lesbian Center’s Distinguished Achievement award.
Provincetown Town Hall – 260 Commercial Street – (508)487-7000
August 4, 2019 at 6:30 pm
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