Jenn Colella

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Jennifer Lin Colella is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her work in musical theatre. She received a Tony Award nomination and won the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and three regional theater awards for her portrayal of Annette/Beverley Bass in Come from Away. She reprised her roles in the 2021 filmed recording of the musical. Colella was in the original Broadway casts of Urban Cowboy, High Fidelity (2006), Chaplin: The Musical (2012), If/Then (2014) and Suffs (2024), and Off-Broadway original productions of Slut (2005) and Lucky Guy (2011). Her Off-Broadway work includes the title character in the Beebo Brinker Chronicles (2008), Closer Than Ever (2012), and a staged reading of Twelve Angry Men (2018) with an all-female cast. In 2008, Colella performed in abridged versions of Girl Crazy and Side Show, two of the parts of Broadway: Three Generations at the Kennedy Center. The production celebrated the reopening of the renovated Eisenhower Theater. She also appeared in The Full Monty (2009) at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, and the American premiere of Take Flight (2010), her first pilot role, at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. Colella has performed in over a half-dozen world premiere musicals in the United States, including three at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. She has appeared in four productions of Peter Pan. Additionally, she has been in multiple productions at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Colella has also done some television work; she appeared on the game show Can You Tell? in 2003 and An Evening with Lerner and Loewe, the initial Broadway in Concert Series installment on PBS in 2022.

Career

1. 1974
   Born

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Summerville
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: actor, television actor, film actor, stage actor