Marcia Saunders

Marcia Saunders has been a company member at PLTC from 1976, performing roles in almost a hundred productions - including Cora in Mornings at Seven, Nancy in Grand Horizons, Hazel in The Children, Virginia Woolf in A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Jennings in Sense and Sensibility, Stella in Stella and Lou, Mrs. Bennet in Pride & Prejudice, Dotty in Noises Off, Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth.

She received Barrymore nominations for many of these roles, but it was playing Claire in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance that garnered Marcia a 2002 Best Supporting Actress award. She also won an Emmy Award for TEACHER TV on The Discovery Channel.

Marcia made her directorial debut with Steel Magnolias at Candlelight Theater in Delaware, and performed in The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at the Atlantic Theatre Co. in New York. Locally, she has also worked at the Wilma, the Arden Theatre, Two Rivers Theater, and at Quintessence Theater. She is married to the director and stage fight choreographer Charles Conwell.