Hollis Resnik, a Chicago theater legend who made her mark in productions of Follies, Les Miserables, Cabaret and Sunset Boulevard, died Sunday night from heart failure. She was 66.
Her death was announced by Rev. Jim Heneghan, a family friend and spokesperson.
“She was, for decades, a reigning diva of the Chicago theater,” wrote Tribune critic Chris Jones, “a rich-voiced star of musicals with a singular presence, a crackling sense of humor, and a larger-than-life persona, on and off the stage.”
Resnik was in the movie Backdraft and appeared on TV shows such as Crime Story, The Untouchables and The Playboy Club. But it was in national touring productions and on Chicago stages that she left her mark.
Resnik’s stage roles included Fantine in national touring productions of Les Misérables, Edith Beale in Grey Gardens at Northlight Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz,...
Her death was announced by Rev. Jim Heneghan, a family friend and spokesperson.
“She was, for decades, a reigning diva of the Chicago theater,” wrote Tribune critic Chris Jones, “a rich-voiced star of musicals with a singular presence, a crackling sense of humor, and a larger-than-life persona, on and off the stage.”
Resnik was in the movie Backdraft and appeared on TV shows such as Crime Story, The Untouchables and The Playboy Club. But it was in national touring productions and on Chicago stages that she left her mark.
Resnik’s stage roles included Fantine in national touring productions of Les Misérables, Edith Beale in Grey Gardens at Northlight Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz,...
- 4/21/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
We told you a while back that short film director Kurtis M. Spieler just wrapped production on the feature film adaptation of one of his shorts, titled Sheep Skin, and today we have the trailer to carry you off into the weekend! Dig it!
The flick stars Michael Schantz, Laurence Mullaney, Ria Burns-Wilder, Bryan Manley Davis, Zach Gillette, and Jamie Lyn Bagley with Mark Resnik.
Synopsis
Sheep Skin is a gritty, realistic take on the werewolf sub-genre. The film centers around a group of friends in a punk rock band that kidnap a businessman because they believe he is responsible for their friend’s death. However, the friends have convinced themselves that the man is more than just responsible for the demise of their friend and is actually a werewolf hiding in plain sight.
The group members take the man to a nearby warehouse, where they intend to prove that...
The flick stars Michael Schantz, Laurence Mullaney, Ria Burns-Wilder, Bryan Manley Davis, Zach Gillette, and Jamie Lyn Bagley with Mark Resnik.
Synopsis
Sheep Skin is a gritty, realistic take on the werewolf sub-genre. The film centers around a group of friends in a punk rock band that kidnap a businessman because they believe he is responsible for their friend’s death. However, the friends have convinced themselves that the man is more than just responsible for the demise of their friend and is actually a werewolf hiding in plain sight.
The group members take the man to a nearby warehouse, where they intend to prove that...
- 4/11/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
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