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Starring Helen Hayes Award Winner Andrew Long Winner of the 2004 Pultizer Prize and the 2004 Tony Award® for Best Play "I Am My Own Wife is the most stirring new work to appear on Broadway this fall… both moving and intellectually absorbing." - The New York Times (2004) Inspired by interviews conducted by the playwright over several years, I Am My Own Wife tells the fascinating real-life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite who managed to survive both Nazi rule and the repressive East German Communist regime. Von Mahlsdorf was an iconic figure who created a safe-space in the bowels of her antiques museum for East Berlin 's "undesirables" – homosexuals, cross-dressers, and prostitutes. But in order to survive, she sacrificed her ideals – becoming an informer for the East German secret police, the Stasi. In this "brilliant" (New Yorker) one-man show demanding a tour-de-force performance, the award-winning Andrew Long (My Fair Lady, Saving Aimee) portrays Charlotte 's complexity – a non-conformist shrouded in an image of conformity; a protector of minorities who ultimately becomes their betrayer. The discovery that she had survived only by informing on her friends and protégés to the East German secret police caused many – including playwright Doug Wright – to question their own definitions of survival and fidelity. I Am My Own Wife begins performances January 12th and runs through March 7th. BUY TICKETS NOW! Signature’s Pride Night performances and post-show receptions with drinks, appetizers, and the cast and crew take place January 29 and February 5 at 8pm. Tickets start at $76. Find out more about Helen Hayes Award winner Andrew Long:
Media Sponsor: Signature is partially supported by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts and by a gift from Arlington County through the Arlington Commission for the Arts and the Cultural Affairs Division of the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Resources.
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Andrew Long SIGNATURE: My Fair Lady (Henry Higgins), Saving Aimee (Asa Keyes). NEW YORK : Summer Play Festival: Swansong (Ben Jonson). DC AREA: Studio: Frozen (Helen Hayes Award, Best Actor); Shakespeare Theatre Company: As You Like It (Jacques), Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra (Mark Antony), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Lord Windermere), Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (Hotspur/Pistol), Coriolanus (Coriolanus), Don Carlos (Posa), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon), Hamlet (Claudius), King Lear (Edmund), The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano), Richard II (Bolingbroke), The Duchess of Malfi (Bosola), and manyothers; Arena Stage, Theater J, Olney, Folger. REGIONAL: The Denver Center: Richard the Third (Richard); Guthrie Theater; Cincinnati Playhousein the Park; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: Enrico IV (Enrico), Amadeus (Salieri), Copenhagen (Heisenberg); Pioneer Theatre; Chautauqua Theater; Oregon,Illinois, New Jersey, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. TRAINING: BFA, University ofNevada ; MFA, Alabama Shakespeare Festival/University of Alabama . 
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