Diane Houghton
- Actress
Diane Houghton is a singer and actor, whose career spans musical and
dramatic theater, film, and television. Roles include Mrs. Lovett in
"Sweeney Todd," Linda in "Death of a Salesman," Kate Keller (Mother) in
"All My Sons," Hattie Walker in Sondheim's "Follies," Joanne in
"Company," Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!," Mama Rose in "Gypsy," and a
host of Shakespeare roles, including Lady Macbeth, Nurse in "Romeo and
Juliet" and Maria in "Twelfth Night." She has performed at the New York
City Musical Theater Festival, Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater and
Marriott Lincolnshire Theater, and Barrington Stage (MA), as well as
spending more than a decade with the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival
(Shakespeare in Central Park). She has also appeared on the Dave
Chappelle Show and in the NBC-TV film, "In the Shadow of a Killer."
She has worked with Broadway Tony Award Winners Donna McKecknie, Charles Durning and Rondi Reed, singers Marnie Nixon and Jeanette McDonald, and film/TV stars Gary Cole and Scott Bakula.
As of 2012, Diane is teaching and performing her one-woman cabaret show, "Portraits."
She has worked with Broadway Tony Award Winners Donna McKecknie, Charles Durning and Rondi Reed, singers Marnie Nixon and Jeanette McDonald, and film/TV stars Gary Cole and Scott Bakula.
As of 2012, Diane is teaching and performing her one-woman cabaret show, "Portraits."
