Jill Clayburgh to Star in A Naked Girl on the Appian Way

Jill Clayburgh will star in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Richard Greenberg's A Naked Girl on the Appian Way. The play, directed by Doug Hughes, will begin performances at the American Airlines Theatre on September 9.

Clayburgh's previous Broadway credits include The Rothschilds, Pippin, Design for Living and Jumpers. After A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, she will quickly begin another Broadway project--she is set to appear in the planned revival of Barefoot in the Park. Clayburgh was part of the original off-Broadway cast of The Exonerated and in the summer of 2003 reunited with her Exonerated co-star Richard Dreyfuss in the Westport Country Playhouse production of All My Sons. Clayburgh also has numerous film and television credits--notable among them are her Emmy Award-winning turn in Hustling, her career-launching performance in the box office hit Silver Streak, and two films which earned her consecutive Best Actress Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations: An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over. She will next be seen on the big screen in the film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' Running with Scissors, which is scheduled for release in 2006.

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way centers on Bess Clayburgh, a successful cookbook author, and her husband Jeffrey, a distracted genius. The couple's lives are upended when their two children return from a year of European travel and reveal surprising news that stretches the family beyond their breaking point.

The production is scheduled to officially open on October 6.