Heidi Schreck

Heidi Schreck was an American actor and playwright born in 1971. The daughter of Larry, a history teacher, and Sherry, a drama teacher, Schreck attended University of Oregon. After college, she taught English in a small Siberian town then worked as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times. When she returned to America, Schreck joined a theater company in Seattle co-founded by her husband, theater director Kip Fagan. The couple relocated to New York in 2003, where Schreck taught English as a second language and performed in off-Broadway plays. She made her film debut, as the title character, in the independent production of Hedda Gabler (2004). Playwright Annie Baker cast Schreck in the former's play Circle Mirror Transformation in 2008, and the next year, Schreck wrote her own play, Creature. She made her television debut in a 2011 episode of "The Good Wife" (CBS, 2009-2016), then co-starred in the play Madrid with Edie Falco in 2013. The very next year, Schreck would write for the Falco-starring series "Nurse Jackie" (Showtime, 2009-15). Two of Schreck's plays, The Consultant and Grand Concourse, premiered in 2014, and she subsequently wrote for the shows "Billions" (Showtime, 2016- ) in 2016 and "I Love Dick" (Amazon, 2016-17) in 2017. Schreck's breakout play What the Constitution Means To Me, which she performed in and wrote, premiered in 2017, although it truly broke out when the production moved to Broadway in 2019.