Considered among the premiere actors in America today, Ms. Woodward's most recent work in films include Philadelphia, directed by Jonathan Demme and Age of Innocence, directed by Martin Scorcese. She received Emmy nominations for her work in Breathing Lessons (Hallmark Hall of Fame) co-starring James Garner, Blindspot (Executive Producer, Hallmark Hall of Fame) co-starring Fritz Weaver and Laura Linney; and Foreign Affairs(TBS) co-starring Brian Dennehy. She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Breathing Lessons. In addition, she received a N.Y. Critics Award and Oscar nomination for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, co-starring her husband, Paul Newman, directed by James Ivory. Mr. Newman directed her in the film, The Glass Menagerie, co-starring John Malkovich. Ms. Woodward performed in Arsenic and Old Lace, directed byJohn Tillinger at Long Wharf Theatre in 1994, marking her return to Long Wharf where she appeared as Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, directed by Nikos Psacharopolous and in Love Letters, directed by John Tillinger. Other theatre projects include Mrs. Alving in Ibsen's Ghosts, adapted and directed by Michael Cristofer at the Bearsville Theatre, and Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Nikos Psacharopolous in Toronto. She has also directed theatre productions of Velvet Elvis by Matthew Carnahan; The Depot by Eve Ensler; La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler; as well as films for AFI, Public Television and Network Television. Produced and narrated documentary on the Group Theatre, Broadway Dreamers, for Public Television. During the summer of 1996, Ms. Woodward directed Rocket to the Moon at the Williamstown Theatre Festival starring Marisa Tomei and Reg Rogers, and performed the role of Judith Bliss in Noel Coward's Hay Fever at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. In April 1997, Ms. Woodward directed Waiting for Lefty for the Blue Light Theatre Company. In August 1997, she directed La Ronde and in 1998 Odets' The Big Knife at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and in 2000 at the Westport Country Playhouse she directed The Constant Wife by W. Somerset Maugham and in her final season as Artistic Director in 2005 she directed The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. Ms. Woodward received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. A native of Thomasville, Georgia, her professional training began at The Neighborhood Playhouse under Sanford Meisner and Wynn Handman, and later, with Robert Lewis. She is a member of the Actors Studio in New York. Ms. Woodward resides in Westport.

Annie served as associate artistic director for Westport Country Playhouse from 2000-2006 with Joanne Woodward. She was originally Co-Chair of the Artistic Advisory Council, with Ms. Woodward. In the fall of 2007 she served as assistant director to Gregory Boyd on the Hartford Stage production of Our Town with Hal Holbrook. Formerly she stage-managed both at the Long Wharf Theatre (27 years) and at The McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. Broadway transfers she staged-managed include: The Changing Room (with John Lithgow), The National Health (with Rita Moreno), Spokesong (with John Lithgow and Joe Maher), Watch on the Rhine (with George Hearn), and the Off-Broadway transfer of American Buffalo (with Al Pacino). Other Broadway credits include: Death and the Maiden (with Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss, and Gene Hackman, directed by Mike Nichols) and Hamlet (with Ralph Fiennes) and most recently: Night Must Fall with Matthew Broderick. Ms. Keefe also serves on the Advisory Board of the Sono Ballet, Norwalk, and has taught the third year stage managers at the Yale School of Drama. She was awarded the Del Hughes Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Stage Managers' Association.

Prior to coming to Westport, Jodi had been general manager for several of off-Broadway's most-acclaimed shows including the original productions of Wit, Fully Committed, and Avenue Q, as well as recent revivals of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, John Guare's Landscape of the Body, and August Wilson's Seven Guitars. She most recently worked with the award-winning Signature Theatre Company where she was both the general manager and transition and capital projects director. In addition to traditional general management duties, she was responsible for Signature's strategic business plan for a performing arts center located at the redeveloped World Trade Center site. She was the general manager of Vineyard Theatre and of Manhattan Class Company (MCC) Theater, and also served as the president of the Association of Non-Profit Theatre Companies in New York. She holds a BA in theatre and English from Texas Wesleyan University and an MFA in arts administration from Virginia Tech.