">Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is an actress and singer. She currently stars in the ABC
television drama Private Practice as Dr. Naomi Bennett.[1] She has appeared on
the stage in both musicals and dramas, such as Ragtime (musical) and A Raisin in the
Sun. She maintains an active concert and recording career, performing
song cycles and operas as well as performing in concert throughout the US. She
has won the Tony Award four
times and Grammy Award twice.
Marin Mazzie (born October 9, 1960) is an American actress and singer known for her work in musical
theater. She was nominated for the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Olivier Award for her role
as Lilli/Katharine in Kiss Me, Kate, and won the Outer
Critics Circle Award. In addition to appearing in many musical stage
productions, Mazzie also performs in concert with her husband, Jason Danieley.
Judy Kuhn was born in New York
City and grew up in Bethesda, MD. She attended Georgetown Day
School in Washington, D.C. She entered Oberlin College in 1976. Although she
was very interested in singing and theater, she began Oberlin in the College,
not the Conservatory. After taking voice lessons with Frank Farina, a student
who is now a famous opera singer[1], during her freshman
year, Kuhn decided to transfer into the conservatory. She transferred her
sophomore year. Unlike other Oberlin Conservatory vocal performance
majors, Kuhn was never interested in singing classical music, preferring musical
theater and other types of music instead. She trained as a classical soprano and graduated in 1981. After
college Kuhn moved to Boston, where she waited tables and studied acting. After
doing summer stock in New England, Kuhn moved to New York, where she called up
everyone she knew in the business to begin a career in the New York theater
business.