Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Iconic Broadway, Movie and TV Star, Joanna Gleason.
Joanna Gleason is a highly acclaimed, multi-award winning actress, writer and director whose stellar career and body of work has spanned 5 decades and is still going stronger than ever.
On the big screen, you’ve seen her in many great movies including “Hannah and her Sisters”, “Heartburn”, “Crimes and Misdemeanors”, “Mr. Holland’s Opus”, “Boogie Nights”, “The Wedding Planner”, “Sex and the City”, “The Women”, “Last Vegas” and many more.
On television, we remember her as “Morgan Winslow” on “Hello Larry”, “Nadine Berkus” in “Love and War”, “Charlotte St. John” in “Oh Baby”, “Connie Randolph” in Bette Midler’s TV sitcom entitled, “Bette”, “Attorney Jordan Kendall” on “The West Wing”, and “Veronica” in “Sensitive Skin”, in addition to a whole slew of guest starring roles in many TV shows including “Diff’rent Strokes”, “ER”, “Murphy Brown”, “Friends”, “King of the Hill”, “The Good Wife”, “The Affair” and “The Good Fight”, to name only a few.
On the stage, Joanna Gleason has appeared on Broadway in 7 shows including “I Love My Wife”, for which she won a Theatre World Award, “Social Security”, for which she won a Drama Desk Award, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award, “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg”, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award, and of course, her unforgettable performance in “Into the Woods”, for which she WON a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Musical. And off Broadway, she won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in “It’s Only a Play”, and she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in “Sons of the Prophet”. She’s also appeared in many other stage productions including “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Hamlet”, “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”, and “The Normal Heart”, to name only a few.
Most recently, Joanna Gleason has written and directed an excellent feature film called “The Grotto”, which has already won a number of prestigious film festival awards. The movie tells the story of a woman in the midst of an emotional upheaval, who inherits a half-interest in a struggling nightclub, where she encounters eccentric performers and discovers a heartbreaking secret.
The movie will be released in theatres and on major streaming platforms in the very near future, so please keep an eye out for it. Joanna Gleason is currently in New York preparing to star in the World Premiere of Joshua Harmon’s play entitled, “We Had a World”, which will be presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the New York City Center Stage 2 from February 25 to April 13, 2025.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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