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A Shape of Thing

             Felicity Huffman has been active in the theater since the beginning of her career. At NYU undergraduate program, she took a class taught by William H Macy and David Mamet. That class went on to found Atlantic Theater Company. Their stated mission is to continue to improve themselves as actors and to perform modern playwrights work including Mamet's. Their dramatic technique is called Practical Aesthetics. Felicity has been the director of the acting school in 1986 to 1987. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and at NYU's Circle in the Square were also in her dramatic roots. .
             Currently, she is still a member of Atlantic Theater Company and teaches Performance Technique when her schedule allows. According to one of her former students, she fondly nicknamed "Flicka." .
             In her theaterical career, her big break came in Howard Korder's Boys' Life at Lincoln Center. Boy's Life was the first ATC production to open on Broadway. That production led to a Drama Desk nomination. Then, she was awarded the prestigious Obie Award for her portrayl of Donny in David Mamet's The Cryptogram (see photo below). She has also appeared on Broadway taking over from Madonna as Karen in Speed the Plow, a Hollywood tragedy; she has also costarred in the movie version of a Mamet play, The Spanish Prisoner. Her last performance at ATC was in The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite by Quincy Long directed by her husband, Bill Macy. .
            


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