About
Mary Lou Rosato teaches 2nd Year Acting at the Yale School of Drama. She is an actress, director, and teacher in New York City whose career has spanned 50 years. She trained at the Juilliard School Drama Division from 1968 to 1972 (Group 1) under John Houseman and Michel Saint-Denis, and went on to become a founding member of The Acting Company.
The Acting Company & New York
With The Acting Company, in a collaboration that continues to this day, she has performed major roles in The Three Sisters, The Time of Your Life, Beggars Opera, Measure for Measure, King Lear, The School for Scandal (Drama Desk Award), Women Beware Women, The Lower Depths, Mother Courage, The Cradle Will Rock, and many others — in New York, on tour across the US, and around the world.
In New York she has been seen in The Suicide with Derek Jacobi, the Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress starring Sarah Jessica Parker, The Inspector General directed by Liviu Ciulei at Circle in the Square, Henry the Fifth at TFNA starring Mark Rylance in his New York debut, and The Misanthrope with Roger Rees and Uma Thurman.
International Work
She has performed at the Old Vic in London, the Taganka Theatre in Moscow, the Aarhus Theatre Festival in Denmark, Teatre Bourgogne in Dijon, France, and La Compagnia De' Colombari in Orvieto and Forli, Italy. She won a Joseph Jefferson Award in Chicago for Best Actress in a Musical.
Film & Television
Film credits include Quiz Show, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Wedding Banquet, Two Bits, Spike of Bensonhurst, and Illuminata. TV appearances include Warehouse 13, Law and Order: SVU, Miami Vice, Stone Pillow with Lucille Ball, and the 51st Annual Tony Awards.
Teaching & Directing
From 1998 to 2016 Mary Lou was on the faculty at California Institute of the Arts, in 2009 becoming Co-Head of its BFA Acting Program with Nataki Garrett. Her directing credits include The Beaux Stratagem (Pearl Theater), As You Like It (Juilliard), and numerous productions for CalArts and The Acting Company.