Diane Shalet, an actress and teacher who was a charter member of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre, died Feb. 23, 2006, in Palm Springs, the New York Times reported. No age was given.
Ms. Shalet worked with director Eli Kazan and producer Robert Whitehead in the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre, the first theatrical organization to inhabit Lincoln Center. Her first play there, and first Broadway credit, was the premiere of Arthur Miller鈥檚
After the Fall in 1964. With the same company, she acted in S.N. Behrman's
But For Whom Charlie, Moliere鈥檚
Tartuffe,
Danton鈥檚 Death and the classic
The Changling.
As an acting teacher, she taught at UCLA and was a teaching associate with Robert Lewis for 14 years.
On television she appeared in everything from 鈥淭he Monkees,鈥� 鈥淏onanza鈥� and 鈥淎ll in the Family鈥� to 鈥淟ittle House on the Prarie,鈥� 鈥淭he Incredible Hulk鈥� and 鈥淐agney & Lacey.鈥� She played a recurring character on 鈥淢atlock.鈥� Her films included 鈥淭he Last Tycoon,鈥� which was directed by Kazan. In 1994, she published the novel 鈥淕rief in a Sunny Climate.鈥�
