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Cara LaGreen

Cara has traveled all over the world to perform; including playing Princess Diana in the Backstage Award winning “Divas” Off Broadway at the legendary Studio 54 in New York City, she received rave reviews in LA weekly for her role in the musical Dracula in Hollywood and was the lead singer on Carnival Cruise Lines’ “Ecstasy” ship out of Galveston, Texas. She has also done many commercial voice-overs, including Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, and Toyota. Cara was seen on NBC’s “The Singing Bee” and Bravo’s “Sheer Genius” which resulted in the rainbow bright hair that can be seen in the Photo Gallery. Cara received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theater from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she performed at the Arden, Wilma, Merrriam, and The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts portraying the second nurse from the left in the world premiere musical “I’ll Be Seeing You”. She debuted her cabaret in NY at the legendary Don’t tell mama theatre and toured it to Los Angeles at the Wyndham Bellage hotel and the Whitefire Theatre. She performed with Palmer Productions as Claire in Personals and Rhetta in her favorite musical of all time Pump Boys and Dinnetts. Cara has performed at the Weathervane Theater in New Hampshire, The NASA Space Center, she has sung in the White House with Don Ho from Hawaii and with Debbie Reynolds in Las Vegas. Locally Cara has been seen at South Coast Repertory Theater, KCAL 9’s Hour of Power at the Crystal Cathedral and recently performend in the hit show, “Dancing Queen” on board the historic Queen Mary in Long Beach (Much simpler to dance and sing on a ship that doesn’t go). Cara holds a certificate in songwriting from the Berkley School of Music in Boston and received an honorable mention in the Song of the Year songwriting competition for her original song Closed Book. Cara is a member of The Actors Equity Association and The American Federation of Radio and Television Artists. Cara’s leisure activities include, Long walks in dark places, watching Saved by the Bell re-runs, playing bingo with ancient ladies, and eating sourdough bread and kulfi, she is currently learning how to play the cheese grater.

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