Lincoln native returns to Rep
By Heidi White
Staff Writer
From the time she was a little girl,
Harley Jane Kozak wanted to be an
actress.
. Although she
*Avas in a play as a
r child, Kozak got her
real start in acting
in ninth grade at
Lincoln East High
School.
“It was more a
compulsion than a
decision (to act),”
she said.
zaK s young aci
career contin
H ued with perfor
mances at the Lin
coln Community Playhouse and the
Nebraska Repertory Theatre.
After three semesters at UNL, she
moved to New York City where she
studied at the New York University
School of the Arts.
Since then, Kozak has starred in
nine feature films, including “Parent
hood,” “Arachnophobia,” “Necessary
Roughness” and “Side Out.”
She has also acted in five made
for-TV movies, four television series,
three soap operas and has been in
more than 40 plays.
Kozak has returned to Lincoln from
her home in Los Angeles to perform at
the Nebraska Repertory Theatre for a
fourth season. She stars in the play
“Lost in Yonkers,” which opened last
night.
This play is about a Jewish family
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Bella, played by Harley Jane Kozak, attempts to explain her secret
romance to the rest of the family at rehearsal Tuesday afternoon.
“Lost in Younkers,” as performed by the Nebraska Repertory
Theatre, opened July 10 and will run through July 20th at the
Howell Theatre.
living in Yonkers in the 1940’s.
“It’s a comedy with the recogniz
able dysfunctions of every family, just
in a different time and place,” Kozak
said.
In the story, two brothers are sent
by their father to live with their grand
mother and their Aunt Bella when
their mother dies. The father then be
comes a traveling salesman in order to
pay for the medical bills.
Aunt Bella, the character played
by Kozak, is “a few sandwiches short
of a picnic,” she said.
Kozak’s character is a 35-year-old
woman who works in the family sweat
shop and still lives with her parents.
She is thought to be a “spinster” by her
nephews, who also refer to her as
being “closed for repairs.”
“There’s something a little bit off
about her to give more freedom to act
in ways we don’t usually get to as
adults,” Kozak said.
The play, which won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1991, was directed by
Constance McCord and written by
Neil Simon. It will run at the Howell
Theatre from July 10 to July 20.
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