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ABOUT

"A gifted singer and excellent actress... astonishing."

- Wynn Handman

"Superb"

- The Hollywood Reporter

"Funny, endearing"

- The New York Post

"A chameleon"

- The Los Angeles Times

"[Annie has] a rangy, powerhouse voice... like all the best cabaret performers she presents each song with all the richness and detail of a one-act play."

- TT n Sheldy

Annie McGreevey is an actor, singer, writer, director, and teacher, with a career spanning over 40 years. She has been featured on Broadway and in London’s West End in some of the theater’s biggest hits, including Sweet CharityCompanySweeney Todd, and Annie. Other American venues include: Lincoln Center, City Center, West Side Arts Theater, the American Place Theater, the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, the Long Wharf Theater, St. Louis Muny Opera, Long Beach Civic light Opera, Dallas Opera House, the Library of Congress, and the Metropolitan Opera.

 

Her career has included extensive work as a solo artist, playing characters as diverse as Angel Eyes, the murdered go-go dancer, in Joyce Carol Oats’s I Stand Before You Naked; Rona Marie Prescott, a trauma nurse serving in Vietnam, in Voices of War, commissioned by the Library of Congress and dramatized and directed by Wynn Handman; and the title character, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor, in Martin Sherman’s Rose.

Among the people Annie has worked closely with over the years are Peter Coe, Alan J. Lerner, Burton Lane, Bob Fosse, Cy Coleman, Harold Prince, Michael Bennett, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Swartz, Grover Dale, Jonathan Lynn, Joshua Logan, Garry Hynes, and Wynn Handman.

 

A scholarship graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, Annie is a founding member of the Alliance of Women Directors. 

"Unforgettable."

- Joyce Carol Oates

Selected Reviews:

"Make a particular note of Annie McGreevey, a comedienne of notable talent, with the rouged cheeks and urchin smile of a young Giulietta Masina..." - The Times of London

"Marvellous talent... [Annie] demonstrates mastery of all the skills demanded by the American musical stage at its scintillating best." - Jewish Chronicle London

"Heart-rending" - Newsday

"Able to communicate an empathy with her character... with a naïveté that counterpoints the morbidity of the material." - The New York Times

"Makes a strong impact" - Variety

"The passion of a Weill heroine." - Punch

"Exceptional... drolly sophisticated comedy" - Dallas Times Herald

"Excellent" - Dallas News Dispatch

"Masterful" - nytheatrenow

"Timorously brash and touching" - The New York Post

"First rate... a bilingual emotional explosion" - San Antonio News

"All the audience fell for her, hook line and sinker... she wowed them... her comedic timing is perfect"  Connecticut Journal Inquirer

"High speed and zany" - Bedfordshire Times

"Wonderfully acted... just the right sauciness" - Dallas Times Herald

 

"Astonishing versatility" - James Struthers

"Touched us deeply" - QonStage

"[Annie] has a great deal of the great Edith Piaf in her voice... [they've] struck a goldmine with her." - The Dallas Morning News

"A strong, passionate voice... really knows how to sell a song" - The Bergen County Record

"Did a beautiful job... between her and [Vivian] Vance, the show would have been a richly satisfying success even if the other actors had only read through their parts." - The New Jersey Star Ledger

"A wonderful comedian" - The Record

"Outrageously comic performance" - After Dark

"The most engaging member of the company" - The Listener

"Matches the stellar performance of Anthony Quayle. There is a unique quality in her portrayal: a refined human touch." - UT Daily Beacon

"Powerful delivery" - Record World

"Excells" - What's On London

"Powerhouse performance... a strong piece of material handled for all its dramatic worth" - Cashbox
 

"Confident handling of some of Sondheim's most agile lyrics" - The Spectator

"So powerful one expects the building pillars to crack, not from the volume, but from the power of emotion" - San Antonio Express

"Brava, bravissima!" - The Nation

"Stuns the crowd... a show stopper" - Miami Herald

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