Occupation(s) Actress, singer Name Ann Crumb Instruments Vocals (soprano) Role Actress · anncrumb.com | Years active 1987-present Parents George Crumb Website www.anncrumb.com Siblings David Crumb | |
Albums A Broadway Diva Swings Nominations Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical Similar People George Crumb, David Crumb, Michael Ball, David Starobin, Harry Allen | ||
Aspects of Love, London 1989 RARE FOOTAGE! Final 15 minutes (edit)
Ann Crumb is an American actress and singer.
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Career
The daughter of composer George Crumb and sister of composer David Crumb, she made her Broadway debut in 1987 as a member of the original cast of Les Misérables. Additional Broadway credits include Chess, Anna Karenina, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1993, and Aspects of Love, as Rose Vibert, a role she originated in the West End.
Crumb has toured in the title role of Evita and appeared in numerous regional theatre productions staged by the Guthrie, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and Tennessee Repertory Theatre, among others. Her television credits include the daytime soaps As the World Turns, The Guiding Light, and Another World, and the primetime dramas Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She presently is in pre-production for a mini-series entitled The Road to Saint Lazarre in which she will portray famed spy Mata Hari.
Crumb's recordings include A Broadway Diva Swings, a concert version of Nine with Jonathan Pryce and Elaine Paige, and Unto the Hills, in collaboration with her father. Her upcoming jazz CD is entitled Goodbye Mr. Jones.
Personal life
In her personal life, Ann is intensely committed to the cause of animal rescue and adoption. In December, 2009, she co-ordinated a “doglift” of over 50 dogs, all slated for euthanasia at shelters in the Midwest, to no-kill rescues in the Northeast where homes could be found for them.