Cole, Beth Anne

Websites:  https://www.bethannecole.com/
Origin: Ottawa, Ontario
Biography:

Beth Anne Cole began her performing life at the age of fifteen, singing on CBC Radio and network Television. Throughout her career, she continued to work at CBC, notably in a twenty-two-year stint on “Mr. Dressup”, as writer and performer on CBC Radio’s “Morningside”, in dramatic roles in radio and television, and appearances on “Sesame Street”, for which she also wrote songs.

Early on she became interested in acting and trained at the Stratford Festival in Canada and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in England. While in England she starred in a seminal run of “The Fantasticks” at the Hampstead Theatre Club, and in regional theatres such as the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, Surrey. When she returned to Canada she played leading theatre roles across the country: At Neptune Theatre in Halifax, National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Winnipeg’s Rainbow Stage, and at Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Tarragon Theatre, and Royal Alexandra Theatre, all in Toronto. She also spent four seasons at The Shaw Festival where she played the title role in “Rosemarie”, and Margot in “The Desert Song”, among other roles.

BETH ANNE has established a distinguished career as a concert artist, songwriter and recording artist. She sang at the Shaw Festival, Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Boston Conservatory, Scottsdale, Arizona and scores of other venues large and small. She has recorded three CDs. When she moved to New York in 1997 she continued to perform her original work and created, with the actor Alvin Epstein, a cabaret show entitled “Kurt Weill: Songs Degenerate and Otherwise” to rave reviews. Together they received the” Best cabaret show, New England Critics’ Award” for the Kurt Weill show.

After almost nine years in New York, where she also taught speech and performance at Michael Howard Studios, and Circle - in - the- Square Theatre School, Beth Anne returned to Toronto where she now resides. Her artistic activities now include visual art, poetry, and composition, and she continues to tour and perform. Her new recording of original songs and poems, "Perhaps the Gods of Love" is a compelling work of contemporary art-song.

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