During a sabbatical as an NBC producer, Canfield convinced the network to create Masterpiece Playhouse, one-hour productions of seven classic plays including Hedda Gabler, Uncle Vanya, and Othello.
She started out performing in the theatre, appearing in plays such as Hedda Gabler, As You Like It, Measure for Measure and The Seagull.
L'Ecuyer, the character, is a struggling gay theatre director trying to stage a production of Hedda Gabler, who gets involved in various misadventures as he tries to find, through any means necessary, the money to finance his vision while a camera crew documents his efforts.
She moved to Los Angeles, California in 2004 in hopes of being employed as an actress, but despite appearances in such TV shows as Hedda Gabler, Nip/Tuck and My Name is Earl she decided not to pursue it due to the fact that she got new prosthetics.
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While in college, she played lead roles in plays such as Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.
She was probably best remembered by audiences of that time for her performances as Mrs. Elvsted in Hedda Gabler opposite Minnie Maddern Fiske, the title role in Pinero's Letty and Rhys Macchesney in the Rachel Crothers play, The Three of Us, over its long run at the Madison Square Theatre.
Cate Blanchett, who played the title role in Hedda Gabler in the Sydney Theatre Company's visiting performance there, was awarded the Ibsen Centennial Commemoration Award, presented by Minister of Equality Karita Bekkemellem.
In The Company of Actors is a documentary featuring an ensemble of Australia's finest Actors, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Justine Clarke and Aden Young as they prepare a production of Hedda Gabler from rehearsals at Sydney Theatre Company to opening night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York.
Heynen earlier starred in regional productions of Private Eyes, Hedda Gabler, Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and nearly three dozen other productions in the Washington and Baltimore areas.
In the Company of Actors features an ensemble of actors as they prepare to perform the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Hedda Gabler at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.
They also continued their collaboration throughout the decade as producers on TV specials, including Hedda Gabler (with Ingrid Bergman and Michael Redgrave), and The Crucible (with George C. Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, and Fritz Weaver).