Emily Skinner To Participate In Signature's 'Brown Bag Lunch' 9/4

  Tony Award nominee Emily Skinner, last seen on Signature's stage in the critically acclaimed production of The Witches of Eastwick, is featured in the new musical adventure Ace. On Thursday, September 4th, 2008 she will participate in Signature Theater's free event "Thursday Brown Bag Lunch". The first Thursday of the month patron can sit down for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Signature productions. "Enjoy your lunch while you engage in an informal discussion with some of the artists our their 2008-2009 season," says the theater's website.

Emily Skinner recently starred on Broadway as Miss Mona in the Actor's Fund concert of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at the August Wilson Theater. She also starred in the original Broadway productions of Side Show (Tony nomination, Drama League Award), Jekyll & Hyde, James Joyce's The Dead, The Full Monty and Dinner At Eight (Outer Critics Circle nomination). With New York's City Center Encores! She appeared in No Strings, Pardon My English, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Broadway Bash.  Off-Broadway: leading roles include WPA Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, York Theater and The Paramount Theater at Madison Square Garden.  Her regional theater credits include multiple shows at The Kennedy Center, McCarter, Long Warf, The Old Globe, Ford's Theater, St. Louis MUNY, TheaterVirgina and The Signature Theater.

In concert she has appeared with New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, the Pittsburgh Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, Merkin Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Symphony Space.  She has directed and performed in numerous Broadway By The Year concerts at New York City's acclaimed Town Hall.  Her recordings include countless cast albums and audio books, Duets, Unsuspecting Hearts, Skinner/Ripley Raw at Town Hall (all with Alice Ripley), Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, The Stephen Sondheim Album, Wall to Wall Sondheim, Believe: The Songs of The Sherman Brothers, The Stephen Schwartz Album, 20th Century Fox's animated feature Anastasia, and her self titled solo CD.

For more information please visit www.sig-online.org