Andréa Burns


Andrea Burns 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.

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 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.
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 on Netflix, Kevin Can Wait, Sky Dancers, , Rescue Me, Blue Bloods, The Electric Company , 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.
Most recently, Andrea starred as "Lenora" in the 2015 film Akron, an official selection of the Out on Film Festival 2015.

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

Source:
Marquis Theatre
Original Broadway Production, 2015
Oriental Theatre, 2015
City Theatre, 2014
Original Broadway Production, 2013
The Muny, 2011
Rose "Rosie" Alvarez
Broadway Transfer, 2008
Daniela
Roundabout Revival, 2007
Googie Gomez
Original Off-Broadway Production, 2007
Daniela
World Premiere, 2006
Manuela
Reading, 2006
Performer
National Tour, 2001
Vicki Nichols
Original Broadway Production, 2000
Vicki Nichols
Off-Broadway Production, 2000
Celeste
US National Tour, 1999
Lucille Frank
New York Concert, 1999
Nancy Foyle
Original Off-Off-Broadway Production, 1995
Performer
Original Broadway Production, 1994
Belle
Townsperson, Enchanted Object
Townsperson, Enchanted Object
Enchanted Object
Townsperson
European Tour 1992–1993
Maria

Recording credits

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  • Fine and Dandy
Performer
  • The Last Five Years
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  • "-
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  • Saturday Night
Celeste
  • Songs for a New World
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Awards