Andrea Frierson

Two-time Helen Hayes Award nominee, Andrea Frierson has performed leading roles on Broadway in The Lion King, the original Broadway productions of Once on This Island, Bring in ‘Da Noise/Bring in ‘Da Funk, For Colored Girls, Marie Christine, and Julie Taymor’s Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass, both at Lincoln Center Theater. 

Andrea was the author and star of Me & Ella, which ran at the York Theatre in New York City in 2017.  Television appearances include: Quantico, Pose, Red Oaks, Elementary, and Season I of the Amy Poehler & Tracy Oliver series, Harlem, streaming now on Amazon Prime. She also starred in the late 90’s on the Nickelodeon tv series, Allegra’s Window, and was briefly a TV staff-writer on the show in its first season.  

Andrea has taught voice privately for many years, one-on-one and in singing and acting workshops.  A Dramatist Guild Fellow, a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Songwriters Workshop, and a Library of Congress award-winner (ethnographic research), Andrea has more recently been an adjunct professor of Voice at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. Learn more at AndreaFrierson.com.