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Joan Darling

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Joan Darling began her career with the New York improvisational theater troupe "Premise Players", and soon graduated to off-Broadwy and Broadway productions. She made her film debut in 1964 and, in the early '70s, landed a regular role on the "Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law" (1971) TV series. In addition to acting in TV series, she began to write for them. Her first directorial job was for the pilot of the hit '70s TV series "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" (1976) and she directed several of the series' episodes. She became one of the first female TV directors to be steadily employed on various series, and directed many episodes of "M*A*S*H" (1972), the "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) show and "The Bob Newhart Show" (1972). She made her film debut in 1977 with the critically acclaimed but financially unsuccessful First Love (1977), and has made several theatrical and made-for-TV movies since then.

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Attends piano camp in the summer with her husband

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(December 2004) Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Drama since 2003. Performed in Uncle Vanya and A Prayer for Owen Meany with PlayMakers Rep, as well as a one-woman show called Back Talk (Teaching Lost Selves to Talk) by childhood friend Joan Weimer. In rehearsal for a new play written by husband Bill Svanoe

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