About BETH ANNE COLE

Beth Anne Cole was born in Canada and trained as an actress in England at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

In London she made her debut in The Fantasticks at the Hampstead Theatre Club.

One of Canada's leading singer-actresses, she spent four seasons at the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake in Rose Marie (title role), The Desert Song (Margot), Hit the Deck (Looloo) and Lady Audley's Secret (Phoebe).

She wrote and performed critically acclaimed specials for CBC Radio on Parisian cabaret singer Yvette Guilbert, composer Harold Arlen, the collaborative team of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, and performed in cabaret and on the concert stage.

She is well-known to Canadian children's TV audiences for her appearances on Mrs. Dressup and Sesame Street for which she also composed songs.

Ms. Cole toured her one-woman show of theatre songs across Canada and the U.S. and, as a frequent guest with symphony orchestras, has performed her own Broadway for Kids program and narrated Babar by Fran�oise Poulenc.

Recently Ms. Cole released an album of her own original songs entitled "Gifts in the Old, Old Ground" and was featured on WNYC Public Radio's "New Sounds" program. She is also an interpreter of Yiddish songs and will soon bring out a CD entitled "Songs Under the Stair."

She teaches voice production and singing performance at Michael Howard Studios in New York.

She and Mr. Epstein premiered Kurt Weill: Songs Degenerate & Otherwise last summer in Maine and on Martha's Vineyard, and since then they have performed it at the Boston Conservatory of Music, on Michael Feinstein's Carnegie Hall series and in Riverdale, NY.