Early Life in Oregon
Corbett was born in 1947 in Camp Sherman, Oregon. She studied drama at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech just before its merger into Carnegie Mellon University in 1967. Her pursuit of a serious acting career first brought her to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. She moved to New York and enjoyed a successful career on stage, with many roles on and off Broadway.
Some highlights include Broadway's After the Rain with Alec McCowen, Forty Carats with Julie Harris directed by Abe Burrows, Shakespeare's Henry VI at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Shaw's Arms and the Man at The Sheridan Square, Iphigeneia at Aulis with Irene Papas at Circle in the Square, The Government Inspector with David Dukes and John Glover at The Phoenix Theatre, and The Survival of St. Joan, at the Anderson. She worked in many regional theatres, including the Long Wharf Theatre, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, the Eugene O'Neill Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and the Repertory Theatre of New Orleans.
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