Jill Dalton
Award-Winning Actor/Writer
“Truly superb . . . the script (Lizzie Borden Live! by Jill Dalton) is fascinating. Jill Dalton is an astonishingly talented actress - she changes her mood and characters in a split second. The play should get a Pulitzer.”
Charles Alexander, writer, Time Magazine
BIO
Jill Dalton is an award-winning actor/playwright. Her plays Whistle-blower (2015) and Collateral Damage (2014) were semifinalists in the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her stories have been published in Auntie Bellum Magazine, Progressive Activists Voice, Pine Hills Review, bioStories, Delmarva Review, Evening Street Review, the Curlew Quarterly, and The MacGuffin.
Jill is also an accomplished actress and won the Jacoby Award for her portrayal of Lizzie in her play, Lizzie Borden Live! She has performed on TV, in film, and on and off Broadway, including Saturday Night Live, FBI, Law & Order, Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, and The Lehman Trilogy.
She is currently writing a humorous memoir about her adventures in show business and seeking fame and fortune in New York City. Jill still lives in NYC with her bossy cat, Magpie.
"Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”
—Carolyn See
