NEW YORK (AP) – Stage actress Geneva Carr’s birthday this year fell on a Wednesday, which meant she had to work both a matinee and the evening show. She wasn’t complaining. It was like two gifts.
“I GET to perform twice, what are you talking about?” the actress said in her Broadway dressing room, looking aghast at the mere idea of possibly being unhappy about working. “I get to do it TWICE. Are you kidding me?”
Carr, who stars in the pitch-black comedy “Hand to God,” is still in the pinch-me-I’m-dreaming mode after a hard, unlikely path to her Broadway debut this season.
Carr is a former derivatives trader who fell in love with acting 15 years ago and scraped together a career juggling stage, TV and commercial work as “a very happy nobody.”
Now, at 44, thanks to a ferocious performance, she has earned a Tony Award nomination for best actress in a play, competing against Helen Mirren, Elisabeth Moss, Carey Mulligan and Ruth Wilson.