Lee Chamberlin
| Lee Chamberlin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Alverta Elise La Pallo February 14, 1938 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 25, 2014 (aged 76) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1970–2013 |
| Spouse(s) | Daniel Edward Chamberlin (m. 1960; died 1999) |
Lee Chamberlin (born Alverta La Pallo; February 14, 1938 – May 25, 2014) was an American theatrical, film and television actress.
Chamberlin was born in 1938 in New York City. She was the daughter of Ida Roberta (née Small) (1909-1993) and Bernando LaPallo (1901–2015) the centenarian author of Age Less/Live More, who claimed he was born in 1901, but documentation indicates sometime between 1907 and 1910.
She attended elementary school at Our Lady of Lourdes in Harlem, and Cathedral High School in Mid-town Manhattan. Later she studied at NYU and the Sorbonne in Paris. She went on to study acting at HB Studios in New York and with Uta Hagen.
Lee began her career in 1968 on in Slave ship, a stage production based on the outline of LeRoi Jones later known as Amiri Baraka. She appeared at The Orpheum Theatre in a musical production called Do Your Own Thing based on the Shakespearean play 12th Night and in an off Broadway production "The Believers". She played Cordelia opposite James Earl Jones's King Lear in 1974 in the Delacorte Theatre at the New York Shakespeare in the Park Festival. Later, Chamberlin went to win six AUDELCO Awards for Excellence in Black Theater on November 21, 1988, for her musical play Struttin’, performed at the Rosetta LeNoire AMAS Repertory Theater. She also appeared in the play Hospice produced at The Henry Street Settlent Theatre in New York City. She wrote and acted in her one-woman play Objects in the Mirror are Closer than They Seem first as a reading in Miami Florida and later in 2010 as part of The Kitchen Theatre's Counter series in Ithaca, NY from February 10 through 14 in a sold out run. The play was directed by Rachel Lampert. Chamberlin founded a non-profit organization called Lee Chamberlin's Playwrights' Inn Project Inc., establishing it in France to nurture the work of African American playwrights.
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