Laura Osnes created the role of Julia Trojan in the new musical Bandstand, which recently
completed its Tony Award-winning run on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include the
title role in Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Drama Desk Award; Tony, Outer Critics
Circle, Drama League and Astaire Award nominations), Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde (Tony
Award nomination), Hope Harcourt in the Tony Award winning revival of Anything Goes
(Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Astaire Award nominations), Nellie Forbush in Lincoln
Center Theater͛s production of South Pacific, and Sandy in the most recent revival of Grease.
Other New York/regional credits include The Blueprint Specials, The Threepenny Opera
(Drama Desk Award nomination) at the Atlantic Theater Company; City Center Encores!
productions of The Band Wagon, Randy Newman’s Faust, and Pipe Dream; The Sound
of Music in concert at Carnegie Hall; Carousel opposite Steven Pasquale at the Lyric Opera of
Chicago, and Broadway: Three Generations at the Kennedy Center. On television, she has
been seen on the CBS series ͞Elementary͟, in the HBO pilot ͞The Miraculous Year͟, Sondheim:
The Birthday Concert at Avery Fisher Hall, HBO’s documentary Six By Sondheim, and the
Kennedy Center Honors salutes to Barbara Cook (2011) and Dustin Hoffman (2012). Her many
concerts and cabarets include performing with Michael Feinstein, the New York Philharmonic,
The New York Pops, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The Boston Pops, The San Francisco
Symphony, and The National Symphony Orchestra, as well as appearing in such venues as
Carnegie Hall, The Café Carlyle, Feinstein͛s/54 Below, Lincoln Center, The Smith Center in Las
Vegas, and MN Orchestra Hall. In addition to being heard on several cast recordings, Laura has
two solo albums, Dream A Little Dream: Live at The Café Carlyle and If I Tell You: The
Songs of Maury Yeston. @lauraosnes