Annie Parisse has made memorable stage appearances in such works as Prelude to a Kiss, Clybourne Park and Becky Shaw, and is well known to television viewers for her work as Julia Lindsey Snyder on As the World Turns, and Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Borgia on Law and Order. This summer, Parisse will be playing Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well and Mariana in Measure for Measure as part of the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park season. TheaterMania recently spoke with Parisse about her upcoming summer gig.

THEATERMANIA: This is your first summer doing Shakespeare in the Park. Was this something you wanted to do for a while?… Read the rest