Jodie
Lynne McClintock has appeared in film and television as well as on
Broadway and Off, in London's West End, at Israel's National Theatre -
the Habimah, and at major regional theatres across the country. She
portrayed passenger Marion Ruth Britton in Paul Greengrass's
universally acclaimed film United 93 and was subsequently
honored with her castmates by the Boston Society of Film Critics
which named them the Best Ensemble Cast of 2006. She is featured
as cheerleading nun Sister Thomas in The Mighty Macs with
Carla Gugino and Phyllis Sommerville. She performed on
Broadway, in London's West End, and on the International Tour of Sir
Jonathan Miller's production of A Long Day's Journey Into
Night as Cathleen with Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey,
Peter Gallagher, and Bethel Leslie; a role she reprised on
film for both Showtime and PBS' American Playhouse. She
was a guest member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during their
Broadway and Kennedy center rotating repertories, and she also worked
with the RSC's artistic director Adrian Noble on The Art of
Success with Tim Curry at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
She won unanimous critical acclaim in her signature role as the Nurse in
Romeo & Juliet directed by David Kennedy at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ and as
Mrs. Purdy in D.H. Lawrence's The Daughter-In-Law directed
by Martin Platt at the
Mint (named by the NY Times as one of the top-ten
productions of 2003). She has enjoyed a 24 year collaboration with
Martin who has directed her in everything from the classics to world
premieres. Other Off-Broadway credits include Belle
Epoque at Lincoln Center, Tricks the Devil Taught Me
at the Minetta Lane, A Dangerous Personality where she
played Madame Blavatsky for Perry Street Theatricals at the Women’s
Project, as the horse Godfreya in Timeslips directed by
Christopher Bayes at HERE; and she originated the dual role of Paula/Sir
Geoffrey in Charles Busch’s Shanghai Moon at Theatre for
the New City. Regionally she has worked at Long Wharf, McCarter,
Papermill Playhouse, Rep Theatre of St Louis, Pittsburgh Public,
Syracuse Stage, and both the Alabama and St. Louis Shakespeare Festivals
among others. She was named one of the best actresses of 2010 by the
Times-Herald NY for her triple role of Mrs. Kravitz/Mrs. McCarthy/Mrs.
Van Nostrand in Red Herring at the Shadowland Theatre. Her
television credits include featured roles on Louie, 30 Rock,
Law and Order: Criminal Intent and The Naked Brothers
Band for Nickelodeon. She currently appears as Betty in the web
series Return to Sender. Her avatar Maud Eccles, the
bounty hunter, appears in Grand Theft Auto 5 (the highest
grossing, most successful form of entertainment ever released.)
Directorial credits include: Richard III in conjunction
with the opening of Al Pacino's film Looking for Richard
for Fox Searchlight; a national tour of Tartuffe
for the National Theatre of Performing Arts, All the
World's a Stage (a compendium she created on Shakespeare's views
of a life in the theatre), Wooing and Wedding (a similar
piece at Studio North), The Heiress at Theatre Virginia
and A Celtic Midsummer at the Angel Orensanz Center. Film
directorial credits include: Public Service Announcements for The
Million Mom March and the Brady Center for Gun Control that
were shown on national TV as well as on the mall in Washington DC and
PSA's for the National Center for Human Rights. At NYU, she
created a curriculum for Shakespeare on Film and directed shorts of
Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Ms. McClintock strongly believes in passing along the knowledge she has
gained as an actress. To that end,
she
has taught at the British-American Drama Academy in both London and
Oxford and for Robert Cordier's Paris based Acting International, and at
various universities including Carnegie-Mellon, Duke, Adelphi, Pitt, and
Alabama (in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's MFA program) as well as
the Circle Repertory School of Theatre, the Fieldston School for the
Performing Arts, the T. Schreiber Studio, and NYU: Stonestreet Studios.
She currently operates
The Queens Studio where she
privately coaches and holds classes. You can visit her studio website
here:
http://www.thequeensstudio.com. Her clients have appeared on
Broadway, in major films and television, in theatres across the globe,
in national commercials, and have secured places in the top graduate and
drama schools in this country and the UK. Her own great mentors in the
work have been Leon Katz, Robert W. Smith, Patsy Rodenburg, the late
Tony Van Bridge, and the late
Earle Gister.
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Jodie has been married to Arthur William Pearson for the past quarter
century and resides in Sunnyside, NY with Audrey their rescued
dachshund.

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