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Andréa Burns is an American actress and singer best known for her portrayal of the hairdresser Daniela in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical In the Heights, as Carmen in Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance, and as Mrs. Spamboni in The Electric Company.

Early life

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.

Career

Burns began her career touring the opera houses of Europe as Maria in West Side Story when she was 18 years old. She has appeared on Broadway as Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, as Vicki Nichols in The Full Monty, as Carmen in The Nance, as Daniela in In the Heights, and as Googie Gomez in The Ritz, and she has sung concerts at Carnegie Hall. Burns appeared in the original company of Jason Robert Brown’s critically acclaimed Songs for a New World. Burns portrayed Lucille Frank in the national tour of Brown's Parade, for which she received a Touring Broadway Awards nomination for Best Actress. She was also created the role of Celeste in Saturday Night, by Stephen Sondheim, at Second Stage Theatre.

Her début solo album A Deeper Shade of Red was described by Playbill as "superb on all counts!" In 2006, "100 Stories", a single she co-wrote with her brother, music producer Mike Burns, rose to the No. 2 spot on the 2006 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts.

Television credits include Marvel Comics's Jessica Jones, Kevin Can Wait, Sky Dancers, Law & Order: SVU, Rescue Me, Blue Bloods, The Electric Company (2009 TV series), and Wonder Pets. She can also be heard on the original cast recordings of In The Heights, Songs for a New World, This Ordinary Thursday – The Songs of Georgia Stitt, Saturday Night, It's Only Life, Dear Edwina, Shine!, Broadway Bound, and Broadway Musicals of 1953.

Burns starred as Lenora in the 2015 film Akron, an official selection of the Out on Film Festival 2015, and played Fausta in Steven Spielberg's 2021 film West Side Story.

Personal life

She is married to director Peter Flynn. Their son, Hudson Flynn, is featured on the cover art of her solo album, A Deeper Shade of Red.

Stage credits

• The Notebook (musical) (Broadway) as Nurse Lori / Mother

Original Broadway Production, 2024

• The Gardens of Anuncia (Old Globe, Off-Broadway) as Aunt Lucia

Lincoln Center, 2023

• The Light in the Piazza (Off-Broadway Encores!) as Signora Naccarelli

New York City Center, 2023

• The Notebook (musical) (Chicago) as Nurse Lori / Mother

Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 2022

• The Rose Tattoo (Broadway) as Peppina & Serafina Delle Rose (Standby)

Broadway Revival, 2019

• Working: A Musical (Off-Broadway)

Encores! Off-Center Revival, 2019

• Smart Blonde (Off-Broadway)

New York Premiere at 59E59 Theaters, 2019

• Carmelina (Off-Broadway) as Carmelina

York Theatre Company Off-Broadway Revival, 2019

• Pamela’s First Musical (New York) as Mary Ethel Bernadette

Two River Theater World Premiere, 2018

• On Your Feet! (Broadway) as Gloria Fajardo

Original Broadway Production, 2015

• On Your Feet! (Chicago) as Gloria Fajardo

Oriental Theatre (Chicago), 2015

• Smart Blonde (Pittsburgh) as Judy Holliday

City Theatre (Pittsburgh), 2014

• The Nance (Broadway) as Carmen

Original Broadway Production, 2013

• Next to Normal (Ithaca) as Diana

Hangar Theatre, 2012

• Ever So Humble (Ithaca)

Hangar Theatre, 2012

• Bye Bye Birdie (St. Louis) as Rose "Rosie" Alvarez

The Muny, 2011

• In The Heights (Broadway) as Daniela

Broadway Transfer, 2008

• The Ritz (Broadway) as Googie Gomez (Standby)

Broadway Revival, 2007

• In the Heights (Off-Broadway) as Daniela

Original Off-Broadway Production, 2007

• Cole Porter's The Pirate (Philadelphia) as Manuela

World Premiere, 2006

• In This House (New York)

Reading, 2006

• The Full Monty (US Tour) as Vicki Nichols

US National Tour, 2001

• The Full Monty (Broadway) as Vicki Nichols

Original Broadway Production, 2000

• Saturday Night (Off-Broadway) as Celeste

Off-Broadway Production, 2000

• Parade (US Tour) as Lucille Frank

US National Tour, 1999

• Sail Away (Off-Broadway) as Nancy Foyle

New York Concert, 1999

• Songs for a New World (Off-Off-Broadway)

Original Off-Off-Broadway Production, 1995

• Beauty and the Beast (Broadway) as Belle (Understudy) & Townsperson, Enchanted Object (Replacement)

Original Broadway Production, 1994

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Recording credits

• West Side Story (2021 film) as Fausta

• In The Heights

Performer

• Shade Of Red

• This Ordinary Thursday

Performer

• It's Only Life

Performer

• Fine and Dandy

Performer

• The Last Five Years

Performer

• 100 Stories"-

Performer

• Saturday Night as Celeste

• Songs for a New World

Performer

Awards

• 2016 Outer Critics Circle – Nominee – Best Featured Actress Musical
• 2007 Drama Desk Award – Best ensemble
• 2003 Joseph Jefferson Awards – Nominee, Actress in a Principal Role – Musical
• 2001 Touring Broadway Awards – Nominee – Best Actress Musical

References

1. "Cabaret" talkinbroadway.com
2. "Hitting New Heights" Archived January 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Playbill
3. Archived June 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine robertwestfield.com
4. "Q&A with Andrea Burns". broadwayworld.com. April 28, 2009. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
5. "Winners – National Broadway Theatre Awards". Nationalbroadwayawards.com. 2001. Archived from the original on February 15, 2002. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
6. "Andrea Burns". BroadwayWorld. June 4, 2009. Retrieved June 5, 2013.

External links

• Official website
• Andréa Burns at IMDb
• Andréa Burns at the Internet Broadway Database
• Lortel Off-Broadway Database listing

• American women singers
• American stage actresses
• American television actresses
• American musical theatre actresses
• Living people
• People from Miami Beach, Florida
• American people of Venezuelan descent
• 21st-century American women