Zoe Caldwell and Joel Grey Join the Actors Fund’s All About Eve

Four-time Tony Award winner Zoe Caldwell and Tony and Oscar winner Joel Grey have joined the cast of The Actors Fund’s all-star reading of All About Eve, the classic 1950 movie. Previously announced cast members include Annette Bening as Margo Channing, Brian Bedford Addison DeWitt, Peter Gallagher Bill,  Angela Lansbury Birdie, Cynthia Nixon Karen and John Slattery Lloyd. The one-night-only event happens November 10 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, directed by John Erman.

Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve was based on the short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” by Mary Orr, and starred Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a prominent yet aging Broadway star. Anne Baxter played Eve Harrington, the all-too-willing and suspiciously helpful young fan who insinuates herself into Channing’s life, eventually threatening Channing’s career and personal relationships. Featuring supporting performances by George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Marilyn Monroe and Thelma Ritter, the film was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won 6, including Best Picture.

Caldwell has won four Tony Awards for roles in Slapstick, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Medea and Master Class. Off-Broadway she’s appeared in A Spanish Play, Colette and A Perfect Ganesh. She played Bequest to the Nation in London, Antony, Long Day's Journey Into Night opposite Jason Robards at the Kennedy Center and BAM, and Lillian Hellman in Lillian on Broadway. Her TV credits include Medea, Sarah Bernhardt, Mme. Arkadina in The Seagull, and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill in Eugene O'Neill, A Glory of Ghosts. Caldwell also directed An Almost Perfect Person, the award-winning Broadway production of Othello starring James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard and the off-Broadway production of Vita & Virginia, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins.

Grey's stage credits include Wicked, Give Me Your Answer, Do! Drama Desk nomination, Chicago Drama Desk Award, A Fool and Her Fortune, Herringbone, When We Dead Awaken,Cabaret, Silverlake NYC Opera, The Grand Tour Tony nomination, Platonov, The Normal Heart, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Goodtime Charley Tony nomination, George M! Tony nomination, Cabaret Tony Award, Harry, Noon, and Night, Stop the World I Want to Get Off, Half a Sixpence, Come Blow Your Horn. On film he’s appeared in Cabaret Academy Award, Man on a Swing, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, The Seven-Percent Solution, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Kafka, Player, The Music of Chance, The Fantasticks, Dancer In the Dark and Choke. His TV credits include Brooklyn Bridge Emmy nomination, A Christmas Carol, Oz, Alias, Brothers & Sisters, House and Private Practice.

Additional casting will be announced.