- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 24 min., 48 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Acting coach and stage actress Janet Williams Adderley was born Janet Williams on September 17, 1956 in Marshall, Texas. She graduated from Houston's Performing Arts High School in 1974, and then obtained her B.A. degree in American Studies from Yale University in 1978. She appeared in the role of Belle in a Broadway production of Starlight Express, which ran from 1987 to 1989. In 1990, Adderley was featured in the play A... My Name is Alice. In 1990s, she began to appear in television and film productions; in 1994, she founded The Adderley School for the Performing Arts in Pacific Palisades, California. Her students have performed with John Lithgow, Natalie Cole, Dustin Hoffman and Luther Vandross. Disney hired Adderley as an acting coach for the ABC-TV Emmy Award winning 1999 production of Annie. Adderley operates two additional theater schools in Santa Barbara, California.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Janet Adderley
- Janet Adderley
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208803
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Janet Adderley.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
022448
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Pacific Palisades, California 2005 April 1.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Acting Coach Stage Actress.
- Added Author
Adderley, Janet, 1956- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.