GREAT news!
NPT Youth Board is proud to announce that our April 7th Sunday Spotlight will feature Randy Graff as our "virtual master class guest".
Randy (full bio below) is best known for creating the role of Fantine in the original Broadway production of LES MISERABLES as well as winning a Tony for her performance in CITY OF ANGELS. Her many Neil Simon plays include LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR and HOTEL SUITE on Broadway. Film and TV work include: NOTES FORM THE UNDERBELLY, CASHMERE MAFIA, LAW AND ORDER, MAD ABOUT YOU, MOON OVER BROADWAY, KEYS TO TULSA, RENT, ED as well as many more...
We hope you will register today as spots for this webinar "virtual master class" are limited AND FREE! https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6276073193637748992
Tune in to ask her questions and hear about how she works her career in the Entertainment industry.
Bio:
Randy Graff’s truly bi-coastal career has taken her from the Broadway stage to the Hollywood sound stage, as well as to film and television studios in New York and Los Angeles. In the process she has garnered a Tony and Drama Desk Award for her performance in CITY OF ANGELS, as well as Outer Critic’s Circle, Drama Desk and Tony Award Nominations for her starring role in A CLASS ACT.
Ms. Graff had the distinction of creating the role of Fantine in the original Broadway production of LES MISERABLES for which she received a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Her work for playwright Neil Simon includes LAUGHTER ON THE 23rd FLOOR opposite Nathan Lane and HOTEL SUITE for the prestigious Roundabout Theater Company. Other Broadway starring roles include FALSETTOS, HIGH SOCIETY, and sharing the stage with Carol Burnett in MOON OVER BUFFALO.
She co starred with Alfred Molina in the most recent Broadway revival of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and received a Best Actress Drama League Award and Outer Critic’s Circle Nomination. Her Off Broadway work includes Paula Vogel’s THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME at the Vineyard Theater for which she received a Drama League Award, MOTHERHOOD OUT LOUD for Primary Stages, DO RE MI also starring Nathan Lane for City Center Encores!, DAMN YANKEES with Sean Hayes for ENCORES! SUMMER STARS and the original production of A ..MY NAME IS ALICE at the Village Gate.
Ms. Graff has performed literally from coast to coast in regional theaters including Hartford Stage, New Jersey’s McCarter Theater, San Diego’s Old Globe where she portrayed legendary columnist Ann Lander’s as THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS (a one woman show) and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. where she proudly portrayed the countess in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC in the world renown Sondheim festival in 2002.
Randy’s television and film works includes NOTES FORM THE UNDERBELLY, CASHMERE MAFIA, LAW AND ORDER, MAD ABOUT YOU, MOON OVER BROADWAY, KEYS TO TULSA, RENT, ED and guest appearances on THE TONIGHT SHOW and ROSIE O’DONNELL. Her recording work includes the original cast albums of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (2004 revival), A CLASS ACT, CITY OF ANGELS, LES MISERABLES, DO RE MI, HIGH SOCIETY and DOING SOMETHING RIGHT- RANDY
GRAFF SINGS CY COLEMAN, her solo CD.
Ms. Graff is on the faculty at ESPA/PRIMARY STAGES SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS in New York City where she teaches musical theater technique and song interpretation. She holds an honorary doctorate in the Performing Arts from Wagner College.
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