Joanna Merlin, whose acting career stretched from Broadway (she was the original Tzeitel in Fiddler On The Roof), film (she played the dance teacher Miss Berg in Alan Parker’s 1980 film Fame) and TV ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joanna Merlin maintained dual careers in acting and casting on both Broadway and the screen for more than six decades Joanna ...

(JTA) — Joanna Merlin, a famed acting coach and casting director who early in her career as an actress created the role of Tevye’s daughter Tzeitel in the original Broadway production of “Fiddler on ...