Jenn Colella

rdf:langString Jenn Colella

rdf:langString Jenn Colella

rdf:langString Jenn Colella

rdf:langString Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.

rdf:langString New York City, January 2022

rdf:langString Singer, actor

rdf:langString Jenn Colella (born Jennifer Lin Colella; September 22, 1974) is an American actress and singer. She began her career as a comedian and then branched out into musical theater. In her New York debut in Urban Cowboy, she earned a 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. More recently, she landed a Tony Award nomination, and won the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and three regional theater awards for her portrayal of Annette/Beverley Bass in Come from Away. She received a Grammy Award in January 2018 for her role for the Dear Evan Hansen original cast album. See: Along with Come from Away in 2017, she has been cast in the original Broadway productions of Urban Cowboy, High Fidelity (2006), Chaplin: The Musical (2012), and If/Then (2014), and Off-Broadway original productions of Slut (2005) and Lucky Guy (2011). Further Off-Broadway work included the title character in the Beebo Brinker Chronicles (2008), Closer Than Ever (2012), and a staged reading of Twelve Angry Men (2018) with an all-female cast. In 2008 Colella performed in abridged versions of Girl Crazy and Side Show, two of the parts of Broadway: Three Generations at the Kennedy Center. The production celebrated the reopening of the renovated Eisenhower Theater. She also appeared in The Full Monty (2009) for the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, which included Elaine Stritch as Jeanette, and the American premiere of Take Flight (2010), her first pilot role, for the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. She has performed in over a half-dozen world premieres from Wisconsin to Florida and Massachusetts to California, including three at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. From 2001 to 2019, there were four Peter Pans. Additionally, she has been cast multiple times at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. On television, she has made over a dozen appearances, starting in 2003 on the game show Can You Tell? through An Evening with Lerner and Loewe, the initial Broadway in Concert Series installment on PBS in 2022. Her film credits include the live capture of Come from Away's Broadway production.