Andrea Burns (born February , ) is an American actress and singer,
best known for her portrayal of the hairdresser Daniela in Lin-Manuel
Miranda's Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, as Carmen
alongside Nathan Lane in Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance , and as
Mrs. Spamboni in The Electric Company.Burns was born in Miami Beach,
Florida to a Jewish father and a Venezuelan mother. She has described
herself as "...a Venezuelan Jewess from Miami who grew up loving
Broadway." She spent many summers training at the French Woods
Festival of the Performing Arts and is a graduate of Miami's New World
School of the Arts.Burns began her career touring the opera houses of
Europe as Maria in West Side Story when she was years old. She has
appeared on Broadway as "Belle" in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, as
"Vicki Nichols" in The Full Monty, as Googie Gomez in The Ritz and has
sung concerts at Carnegie Hall. Burns was in the original company of
Jason Robert Brown’s critically acclaimed Songs for a New World and
since has become one of the foremost interpreters of his work. Burns
portrayed Lucille Frank in the national tour of Jason Robert Brown's
Parade, directed by Harold Prince, for which she received a Touring
Broadway Awards nomination for Best Actress. She was also selected by
Stephen Sondheim to create the role of Celeste in Saturday Night at
Second Stage Theatre.
best known for her portrayal of the hairdresser Daniela in Lin-Manuel
Miranda's Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, as Carmen
alongside Nathan Lane in Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance , and as
Mrs. Spamboni in The Electric Company.Burns was born in Miami Beach,
Florida to a Jewish father and a Venezuelan mother. She has described
herself as "...a Venezuelan Jewess from Miami who grew up loving
Broadway." She spent many summers training at the French Woods
Festival of the Performing Arts and is a graduate of Miami's New World
School of the Arts.Burns began her career touring the opera houses of
Europe as Maria in West Side Story when she was years old. She has
appeared on Broadway as "Belle" in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, as
"Vicki Nichols" in The Full Monty, as Googie Gomez in The Ritz and has
sung concerts at Carnegie Hall. Burns was in the original company of
Jason Robert Brown’s critically acclaimed Songs for a New World and
since has become one of the foremost interpreters of his work. Burns
portrayed Lucille Frank in the national tour of Jason Robert Brown's
Parade, directed by Harold Prince, for which she received a Touring
Broadway Awards nomination for Best Actress. She was also selected by
Stephen Sondheim to create the role of Celeste in Saturday Night at
Second Stage Theatre.
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