Jill Dalton

Jill Dalton is an Army Brat and was born in Tokyo, Japan. She attended high school in Germany and lived on army bases throughout the south and Kansas. She attended the University of South Carolina and received a BA in English Literature. After college, she was an artist-in-residence with the Metropolitan Arts Council in Greenville, SC where she started a professional mime company, Homemade Mime, that was funded by the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Metropolitan Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. They toured throughout the southeast and Puerto Rico. In 1978 she left her marriage of two years and moved to New York City where she began doing Off-Off-Broadway and soap operas including All My Children, As the World Turns, One Life to Live, and a recurring part on Another World. She did her first film role in Oliver Stone's film, Wall Street then took four years off to support and put her now ex-husband through law school. She spent 4 ½ years doing stand-up comedy and is the recipient of the Mary Jo Comedy Show Award for the most promising newcomer in NYC. Her stand-up credits include Caroline's, Toyota Comedy Festival, Stand-up New York, HBO Promo, America's Funniest People, MTV, Rolling Stone 20th Anniversary, The Duplex, Rose's Turn (Alluring Ladies of Laughter), The Laughing Bean, McGuire's Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, Porky's Comedy Club, Pips Comedy Club, etc. Jill Dalton is an award-winning playwright whose plays Whistle-blower (2015) and Collateral Damage (2014) were both semifinalists in the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her book My Life in the Trenches of Show Business: Escape to New York - Act 1 is available on Amazon. Her work has also been published in Auntie Bellum Magazine, Pine Hills Review, Delmarva Review, Evening Street Review, The MacGuffin, Packington Review, and Progressive Activists Voice. Jill also wrote three solo plays: My Life in the Trenches, Calling on God, and Lizzie Borden Live! Lizzie Borden Live! was commissioned by the East Lynne Theater Company in Cape May, NJ, where it had its world premiere (August 2007) and a successful and critically acclaimed six-week run. Ms. Dalton won the 2007 Jacoby Award for her portrayal of Lizzie. The play subsequently toured and played: Fall River, MA, Providence, RI, Sedona, AZ, and New York City. Ms. Dalton has also performed her solo works at Surf Reality, Dixon Place, Womenkind Festival, Solo Arts, Hudson Guild, The Field, New York Fringe Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Int'l Midtown Festival (best of the fest), 78th Street Theater Lab, the Kitchen Theatre (Ithaca, NY). She also played the lead in Tina Howe's, One Shoe Off at the Northeastern Theater Ensemble. In 2010 she consulted with William Hurt on his portrayal of Hank Paulson in the HBO film, Too Big to Fail and he was nominated for an Emmy. She also played Tony Shalhoube's (John Mack) assistant in the film. Her recent acting credits include The Looming Tower, Braid, Succession, and FBI.