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Marilyn Roberta Sokol (born February 22, 1944) is an American actress, musician, comedian, and producer, perhaps best known for her roles as Lulu Brecht in Can't Stop the Music (1980) and as Ma Otter in Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977). She has received an Emmy Award, Obie Award, and a Bistro Award.

Biography

She lives in New York City and has appeared in film, television as well as in theatre on Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theatres.

Sokol was born February 22, 1944, in the Bronx, New York City, and attended Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C., and New York University. She began her professional career in 1966 as a belly dancer in the national production of Man of La Mancha. She won an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress in 1972 for her performance in a Chelsea Theater Center production of The Beggar's Opera. In 1977, she voiced Ma Otter in Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. In 1980, she was nominated for Worst Supporting Actress at the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards for her role in Can't Stop the Music. She has worked as a comedian, singer, and cabaret performer. In 2012-2013, she starred in the off-Broadway production Old Jews Telling Jokes. She has taught as a distinguished lecturer in the theatre program at Lehman College. She also portrayed Agnes Vertrulli on the web series Submissions Only in 2014.

Filmography

Film

Television

Notable theater productions

• Year Boston Won the Pennant (1969)
• The Great God Brown, Cybel, Dec. 10, 1972 - Jan. 13, 1973
• Don Juan, Matherine, Dec. 11, 1972 - Jan. 13, 1973
• Elephant Steps (1974) (in the role of Ragtime Lady, her performance of "Watch Me Put My Right Foot Through the Door" has been captured on the cast album)
• Welcome to the Club, Arlene Metzler, Apr. 13 - 22, 1989
• Guilt Without Sex (one woman show, 1991)
• Conversations with My Father, Hannah de Blinde, Mar. 22, 1992 - Mar. 14, 1993
• Shlemiel the First (1994-1997)
• Angel Levine (1995)
• Sam and Itkeh (1997)
• If Memory Serves (1999)
• Closet Chronicles (2003)
• In the Wings (2005)
• Old Jews Telling Jokes (2012)

References

1. Maslin, Janet (June 20, 1980). "'CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC'". The New York Times.
2. "Full Resume - Marilyn Sokol". Marilyn Sokol Official Website. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
3. Van Benthuysen, Gretchen (February 29, 2000). "Death becomes Paper Mill cast". Asbury Park Press. Gannett. p. 43. Retrieved May 9, 2023.
4. Ellen Stern, "Suddenly It's Sokol", New York, October 24, 1977.
5. Audrey Berman, "17th Annual 'Obies'", The Village Voice, May 11, 1972.
6. "Razzie Worst Supporting Actress nominees". www.listal.com. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
7. Stephen Holden, "Cabaret: Marilyn Sokol Sings", The New York Times, February 4, 1984.
8. Stephen Holden, "Cabaret: Marilyn Sokol", The New York Times, September 10, 1987.
9. Zinoman, Jason (May 20, 2012). "Such a Tradition of Humor, and This Is Only a Revue?". The New York Times.
10. Neal Conan, "'Old Jews' Take Jokes To The Stage", Talk of the Nation, June 14, 2012.
11. "Professor Sokol Praised for Role in 'Love Divided By/Times Three'", Lehman College, October 21, 2010.
12. Stephen Holden, "Review/Cabaret; Marilyn Sokol's Way With Guilt", February 7, 1991.

External links

• Official website
• Marilyn Sokol at the Internet Broadway Database
• Marilyn Sokol at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Marilyn Sokol at IMDb

• Living people
• 1937 births
• American stage actresses
• New York University alumni
• Lehman College faculty
• American film actresses
• American television actresses
• Obie Award recipients
• Emmy Award winners
• 20th-century American actresses
• 21st-century American actresses
• American web series actresses
• 20th-century American comedians
• 21st-century American comedians
• 21st-century American Jews
• American voice actresses
• Jewish American comedians
• Jewish female comedians
• Jewish American actresses
• Actresses from the Bronx
• Comedians from the Bronx