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Frances Fisher began by apprenticing at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia. She spent 14 years based in New York City, playing leads in over 30 productions of plays by such noted writers as John Arden, Noël Coward, Emily Mann, Joe Orton, Sam Shepard, William Shakespeare, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams. She won a Drama Logue Award - Best Ensemble for the American Premier of Caryl Churchill's "Three More Sleepless Nights", played in the American premier of Judith Thompson's "The Crackwalker" and originated roles in Elia Kazan's "The Chain" and Arthur Miller's last play "Finishing the Picture". Besides working with Kazan and Miller, some of Ms. Fisher's more interesting theater experiences were creating roles from two great works of literature: George Orwell's "1984" and Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Ms. Fisher worked at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles alongside Annette Bening and Alfred Molina in Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard". Fisher starred in "Sexy Laundry" with Paul Ben-Victor at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles. She studied with Stella Adler and became a lifetime member of the Actors Studio by actually "walking up the stairs" and auditioning for legendary acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Ms. Fisher recently completed The Host (2013), Love on the Run (2016), Red Wing (2013) and will work with Catherine Hardwicke in her new film Plush (2013) in August 2012. Ms. Fisher was honored for a Lifetime Achievement Award 2011 in her old hometown of the Pacific Palisades, California.- Actress
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Diane Fisher aka: Diane Frances Fisher, Diane Fisher-Simmons and/or Diane Fisher King (stage name) was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. Diane has been an Actor/Director, Sound Designer and Instructor for the stage since 1997 and she has been working in film on both sides of the camera (Actor, First Assistant Director, and miscellaneous Crew work) since 2003. She is also a singer and writer and has performed in a wide variety of venues - from Outdoor Shakespeare productions and Summer Stock Musicals in Chicagoland, to touring a Greek Tragedy throughout Greece and working on big budget Commercial Films, Independent Movies and Television in Chicago and LA. She graduated with distinction from Indiana University where she received an AA Degree in Humanities and a BA Degree in Theatre and has had intensive post graduate training throughout the country (National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, NYC, Chicago) and abroad (Greek Islands). Diane has also worked in Arts Management as an Artistic Director for Indiana and Chicagoland theatre companies and churches where many of her original scripts have been produced. With a great passion for people and the Lord she travels the globe every chance she gets ministering love, hope and healing through the Arts. Adventures have taken her to Australia, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Prague, Austria, France, Caymen Islands, Mexico, Bahamas, Jamaica, Ireland, Africa and other foreign lands. Diane currently resides in a Lakeshore condo with her Husband Billy and her two cats in the Windy City.- Frances Fisher Byers is known for Seeing America First (1915).