Through the end of June 2009, Metcalf starred in Justin Tanner's play, Voice Lesson, in Hollywood before beginning rehearsals to play Kate Jerome in the Broadway revival of Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound directed by David Cromer. &ndashOn Balm in Gilead, Richard Christiansen Just to sit there and watch and hear Laurie unspool that story, it just brought tears coming down your eyes–oh, boy, it was something." "There's a moment when Laurie Metcalf – who plays this poor young thing that comes to the big city and hangs out at this greasy spoon diner where the play is set – is talking about her once boyfriend who is an albino I think it's a monologue of about five, six, seven minutes. She relocated to Manhattan and began to work in both film and theater, most recently in David Mamet's November. Metcalf was showered with praise for her performance as "Darlene" specifically for her tour de force twenty-minute Act Two monologue. In 1983, Metcalf went to New York to appear in a Steppenwolf production of Balm in Gilead, for which she received the 1984 Obie Award for Best Actress.
In 1981, she was brought on as a performer on Saturday Night Live for their cast, but appeared in only one episode before the season abruptly ended due to a writer's strike she was not asked back in the fall. It was in Steppenwolf that Metcalf got the nickname "crazy pants".
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Metcalf began her professional career at Steppenwolf. While at ISU, she met fellow theater students, among them John Malkovich, Glenne Headley, Joan Allen, and Gary Sinise-who went on to establish Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Metcalf attended Illinois State University and obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Theater in 1977. Both Metcalf and Roth appeared in the same episode of Desperate Housewives. As of April 2008, the Metcalf-Roths have a young foster son. In 2005, Metcalf and family moved to a ranch in Idaho. They married in 1993 and have two children: Will Theron Roth (born November 20, 1993) and Mae Akins (born Jvia surrogate). Metcalf met actor Matt Roth when he played Jackie's abusive boyfriend, "Fisher", on Roseanne.
With Perry, she had a daughter Zoe (1984 named after her great-aunt), and the two subsequently divorced. Metcalf dated Steppenwolf Theatre Company actor Terry Kinney and married Steppenwolf co-founding member Jeff Perry. Her great-aunt was the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Zoe Akins. Her father was the budget director at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and her mother was a librarian. Metcalf was born in Carbondale, Illinois, the eldest of three children, and was raised in Edwardsville, Illinois.
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