MELISSA GILBERT (Caroline “Ma” Ingalls). Theatre: Off-Broadway: A Shayna Maidel; Los Angeles’ Canon Theater: Love Letters; Chautauqua Theater Company: The Glass Menagerie; Royal Poinciana Playhouse, Palm Beach: The Miracle Worker; University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Bus Stop, Love Letters; Guthrie: Little House on the Prairie, The Musical. Television: Series lead in “Little House on the Prairie,” Starred in more than 40 movies for television including Emmy Award-winning The Miracle Worker, and more than a dozen television series, including “Nip/Tuck,” and “Sweet Justice.” Awards Outer Critics Circle Award and Theatre World Award for A Shayna Maidal. Professional Affiliations President, Screen Actors Guild, 2001–05. Other Currently Standing Board Chair and Spokesperson for the Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition. Ms. Gilbert is also a New York Times Best Selling author with the recent publication of her autobiography Prairie Tale a Memoir from Simon & Schuster.