The Acting Company is a nationally touring repertory theater company.
In the Netflix series, which debuted in May, McDermott plays Ernie West, a seasoned Tinseltown resident whose acting career never materialized and now oversees a sex work operation.
LuPone really is vulnerable here in a way that wasn't anticipated: she's in the process of creating a role for which she isn't ideally suited, but she's working like a trouper to get it right.
She graduated from Juilliard in 1972 with a degree.
She emerges as both loving matriarch and wounded adolescent, sentimental and devastatingly clear-eyed.
In 1976, hired LuPone as a replacement to play Genevieve, the title role of the troubled pre-Broadway production of.