Backstage: the role that changed everything
She turned down television twice. The third offer arrived with a script she could not put down.
For a decade she was the reliable name on regional playbills, the performer directors called when a production needed rescuing in week two of rehearsals.
Then came a script that arrived by courier with no agent attached, no budget attached and a note that said simply: read the second act first.
She read it twice in one sitting, called her partner at midnight and accepted before the producers had finished assembling a contract.
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