TONYA PINKINS UNPLUGGED Debuts at Joe's Pub, 6/3

Tonya Pinkins - the acclaimed Tony Award winning actress and vocalist - will headline JOE'S PUB at The Public on Monday, June 3 at 7:30 PM for the debut of a special concert "Tonya Pinkins UNPLUGGED." One of the most dynamic theater vocalists of her generation returns to the venue for an exciting evening of theater songs along with raw and hilarious stories behind her accomplished career... including roles she played and ones that got away. Selections include "Pirate Jenny," Defying Gravity" and "Gimme Gimme" with special surprises to come.

Tonya, best known for her celebrated roles in Caroline, or Change and Jelly's Last Jam, Tonya made her Broadway debut in the original cast of Merrily We Roll Along. Broadway audiences have also delighted in her performances in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Play On!, The Wild Party and Radio Golf, while television audiences know her from "As The World Turns," "All My Children," "Army Wives" and "24." In the past year, Tonya Pinkins has given five critically acclaimed performances in roles as diverse as an aging Countess, a syphilitic Bawd, a bitter ghetto mom, a diabetic great grandmother and a faithful Latina from the Bronx. Her performance in Milk Like Sugar won the 2012 Lucille Lortel Award.

Tonya appears opposite Woody Allen in the upcoming film Fading Gigolo by John Turturro and in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival selection Newlyweeds by Shaka King and in Home by Jono Oliver. Tonya performances have been nominated for the Olivier, Jefferson, Helen Hayes, NAACP, Drama League, What's On Stage, Audience Choice, Soap Opera Digest, Noel and Ovation awards. She is the winner of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic's Circle, Clarence Derwent, Monarch, Black theater Alliance , Garland, L.A. Drama Critics, Audelco and Obie Awards.

She is the author of Get Over Yourself: How to Drop the Drama and Claim the Life you Deserve from Hyperion Books, the creator of The Actorpreneur Attitude and has given workshops lectures and life coaching to businesses and individuals across the globe.

A single mother of four, Tonya is an activist for women and children's rights. She has won legal battles in several states on the trial and appellate level as a self-represented litigant.

Tonya is an accomplished painter and art teacher. she has also been an teacher at every level of education from pre-K through graduate school. Oprah Magazine named her "One of the Ten Women in America who will take your breath away" and Time Out New York included Tonya as one of "Broadways 25 All-Time Greatest Divas."

More information is at www.TonyaPinkins.com.