Maggie Brown | |
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| Born | 1948 (age 76–77) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Southwest Missouri State University |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, director, actress |
Maggie Brown (born 1948) [1] is an American playwright, director and actress.
Maggie Brown was raised in Independence, Missouri, and graduated from Southwest Missouri State University. [2] After moving to New York City, she worked in theater as a performer with Time & Space, Ltd. theater company, and as Director of Children's Theatre at the Manhattan Theatre Club. [2] As an acting teacher, she taught at the New York Association for the Blind, where she directed several Lighthouse Players productions, including The Little Foxes . [2]
On television, she performed guest roles on series including Barney Miller , Dallas , Highway to Heaven and Little House on the Prairie , and appeared in more than 250 television commercials. [3]
Her first script, Sophisticated Nuts and Dried Fruit (1982), [1] was produced in Los Angeles as three one-act plays, and staged in 2001 at Eastern Connecticut State University. She and Kenn Salmon are co-authors of the plays Pat the Cat's Last Fling (1990) [4] and Country Songbird with Wife. [2]
As of 2011 [update] and since writing Twelve Angry Jurors, [3] Brown has performed with The Old Pros Theatre Group, a troupe of retired actors, musicians and dancers who stage productions for the Laguna Woods Village retirement community in Laguna Woods, California. [5]