Jenn Colella Live! In conversation with Ann Pellegrini

Join the Department of Performance Studies for our first lecture event of the year! We are excited to welcome Tony-nominated actress, singer, and comedian Jenn Colella to the 6th floor. She will be in conversation with Professor Ann Pellegrini. Colella was nominated for a Tony Award and received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as Annette/Captain Beverly Bass in Come for Away. Other Broadway credits include Urban Cowboy, If/Then, High Fidelity, and Chaplin: The Musical. And she’ll be back on Broadway later this spring, reprising the role of Carrie Chapman Catt in SUFFS, which had a sold out run at The Public Theatre. Colella also regularly performs at Feinstein’s/54 Below, where her solo concerts “Out and Proud” put a queer spin on the American songbook.

Join Jenn Colella and Ann Pellegrini as the two of them discuss Colella’s career path and process of building roles. They will also dive into - and dish! - the gender and sexual politics of stand-up comedy, musical theatre, cabaret, and so much more.

BIO:

Jenn Colella just ended a sold-out run in SUFFS as Carrie Chapman Catt at The Public Theatre, for which she garnered an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. Jenn starred in the Tony Award-winning smash hit musical Come From Away as 'Beverley/Annette and others,' in a performance that garnered her 2017 Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards and a 2017 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, as well as Craig Noel, Helen Hayes and Dora Awards for pre-Broadway productions of Come From Away. Jenn won a Grammy Award for her work on the Dear Evan Hansen cast recording. She has been previously seen on Broadway in If/Then, Chaplin, High Fidelity and Urban Cowboy (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), Off-Broadway in Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Lucky Guy, Slut and Closer Than Ever. Jenn's select regional credits include Come From Away (La Jolla Playhouse, Ford's Theatre, Toronto), Peter Pan (Sacramento Music Circus & PCLO) and Side Show (Kennedy Center). TV credits include "Feed the Beast," "Elementary," "All My Children," "Rescue Me," "The Good Wife," “The Code,”  “Madam Secretary,” “FBI: Most Wanted”, and “Evil.”  She has been seen on film in Uncertainty with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and stars in the live capture film of Come From Away on Apple Plus, streaming now.  She has taught master classes all over the world and she is currently teaching the grad actors at Columbia University. Jenn Colella is an MFA Acting graduate of UC Irvine.

Event Photo Credit: Matthew Petres