Whether on stage, screen, or in the concert hall, Barbara McCulloh’s varied talents have made her an audience and critical favorite around the country and the globe.

Equally at home in musical or dramatic productions, Broadway audiences enjoyed her playing and covering the role of Anna in The King and I with Lou Diamond Philllips at the Neil Simon Theatre for well over a year. Peter Pan fans will remember her as Mrs. Darling in both the long successful Broadway run and the A&E film starring Cathy Rigby. More recently, she was in the household of Richard Greenberg’s The House In Town at Lincoln Center and national audiences were treated to her performances as Blanche in the tour of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs.

As an accomplished classical actress, Barbara’s regional credits include Hamlet, Tom Jones, Wings, Tartuffe, Hayfever, Macbett, Irma La Douce, The Philadelphia Story, Much Ado About Nothing, The Foreigner, Vanities, The Sound of Music, The Taming of the Shrew,and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Recent starring roles have been in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Sylvia, Blithe Spirit, As Bees In Honey Drown at, among others, the Pittsburgh Public, Walnut Street Theatre, Indiana Rep, Studio Arena, Syracuse Stage, Pioneer Theatre, American Heartland Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Delaware Theatre Co., Bristol Riverside, Barter, Olney, Tennessee Rep., Ford’s, North Carolina Theatre, North Shore, Riverside(Vero Beach), and Virginia Shakespeare. Her performance in 110 In The Shade earned her a Barrymore nomination as best actress in Philadelphia; her creation of Pauline in the world premiere of The Sweet Revenge of Louisa May won her a Helen Hayes nomination, again for best actress.

She began her career in New York Off-Broadway in Romberg’s Up in Central Park, and continued Off-Broadway creating the role of Carolina in the Outer Circle Critics’ winner Kuni-Leml. From there she did the national tour of South Pacific with Richard Kiley. Other Off Broadway credits include the York Theatre’s On the Twentieth Century, Maury Yeston’s 1-2-3-4-5 at the Manhattan Theatre Club and The High Life and Leave It To Me for Musicals Tonite.. As an accomplished classical actress, Barbara’s regional credits include Wings, Tartuffe, Hayfever, Macbett, Irma La Douce, The Philadelphia Story, Much Ado About Nothing, The Foreigner, Vanities, The Sound of Music, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Not only a theatrical actress, Barbara has had featured roles on television including Kitty in Courage the Cowardly Dog, Lynn Moody on Law and Order, SVU and Caroline Griffin on Another World. More recently, she has starred in two new independent films: In The Foxhole, represented at the Boston International Film Festival this June and previously chosen for Virginia’s Top Ten Films in America Festival; and the just completed A Child’s Laugh.

As a narrator for audio books, she has recorded over fifty titles.