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Tony Award Nominee - Best Actress Susan Egan has traversed all four corners of the entertainment industry, making powerful impressions in theatre, film, television and music. On Broadway, she cavorted as Thoroughly Modern Millie, won critical acclaim as “Sally Bowles” in Cabaret, starred in Triumph of Love and State Fair, and most notably, received Tony Award and Drama Desk nominations for “Best Actress” as the original “Belle” in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Regionally, Egan starred alongside Carol Burnett in Putting It Together, Tommy Tune in the national tour of Bye, Bye Birdie, reprised her role of Belle for the Los Angeles premiere of Beauty and the Beast, and developed works at Yale Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, South Coast Rep, and the Mark Taper Forum. Some film credits include: 13 Going on 30, Gotta Kick It Up, Man of the Century (Slamdance Award), Death and Texas (Slamdance/Seattle Film Festivals), The Almost Guys (HBO Comedy/Boston Film Festivals), Meet Market (Sarasota Film Festival), and more. In animation, Susan voiced the characters of “Meg” in Disney’s Hercules, “Lin” in the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away, “Gina” in another Miyazaki release Porco Rosso, and “Angel” in Lady and the Tramp II. She spent two seasons on television with the WB’s Nikki, and has appeared on HOUSE, NUMB3RS, NYPD Blue, Arli$$, Drew Carey, Party of Five, Great Performances, movies for ABC, CBS, and Disney Channel, and more. Susan has headlined with more than 50 symphonies worldwide, including concerts at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Hollywood Bowl, and has over 40 recording credits with 5 solo CDs: All That and More, So Far, Winter Tracks, CoffeeHouse (Best Vocalist 2004), and her concert CD, Susan Egan LIVE. Egan is a Southern California native and attended the Orange County High School of the Arts and UCLA, where she received a Carol Burnett Award in Musical Theatre. In 2002-2003, she devoted a year away from performing to assume the position of Artistic Director of the Orange County High School of the Arts. Visit Egan’s website, www.susanegan.net, which Entertainment Weekly calls the "slickest site around." |
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Music Director for NBC's "America's Got Talent" Georgia is a composer and lyricist. Her musicals currently in development include: Big Red Sun (winner of the Harold Arlen Award in 2005 and written with playwright John Jiler); The Water (winner of the 2008 ANMT “Search for New Voices in American Musical Theatre” and written with collaborators Jeff Hylton and Tim Werenko); and Sing Me A Happy Song (with composer/lyricist David Kirshenbaum). In spring of 2007 she released her first album, This Ordinary Thursday: The Songs Of Georgia Stitt, on the PS Classics label. The recording features stellar performances by such contemporary theater luminaries as Sara Ramirez, Kelli O’Hara, Faith Prince, Carolee Carmello, Susan Egan, Tituss Burgess, Keith Byron Kirk, Andrea Burns, Matthew Morrison, Will Chase, Jenn Colella, Lauren Kennedy and Cheyenne Jackson. She contributed two songs to the 2008 MTV movie The American Mall. Also a music director, Georgia was the vocal coach for the 2008 season of the NBC hit show "America's Got Talent." She was the assistant music director for the NBC TV special “Clash of the Choirs,” the on-camera vocal coach for the NBC reality TV show “Grease: You’re The One That I Want,” and the Production Music Coordinator for the Disney/ABC TV musical “Once Upon A Mattress” starring Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett. On Broadway she was the assistant conductor of the 2003 Little Shop of Horrors revival and the associate conductor of the Encores! production of Can-Can starring Patti LuPone. Also on Broadway: Avenue Q, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, Titanic, Annie, and the national tour of Parade. She has also served as musical director and arranger/orchestrator for The Broadway Divas in concerts in New York, California and Australia and was a music consultant for the feature film “The Stepford Wives,” directed by Frank Oz. Georgia lives in Los Angeles (and sometimes New York) with her husband, composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown, and their daughter Molly. [ back to top ] |
