Occupation Actress, singer Name Montego Glover | ||
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Role Actress · montegoglover.com Movies Memphis: Direct from Broadway Awards Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominations Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical Similar People Chad Kimball, Derrick Baskin, Joe DiPietro, David Bryan, Cass Morgan | ||
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Montego Glover (born February 9, 1974) is an American stage actress and singer. She has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in the musical Memphis and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical.
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- 2013 broadway com audience choice awards orfeh montego glover sing broadway fan
- Character study montego glover memphis gets ready backstage to play fantine in les miserables
- Life and career
- Work
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Glover is set to next portray the role of Angelica Schuyler Church in the Chicago production of Hamilton.

Character study montego glover memphis gets ready backstage to play fantine in les miserables
Life and career

Glover was born in Macon, Georgia and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She attended the Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences and then attended Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theatre with Honors. Glover sang in church choirs "for as long as I can remember".

She has performed on Broadway in the musical Memphis as Felicia. Glover received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance. Additionally, she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (in a tie with Catherine Zeta-Jones). She displays a "rich, rangy and emotionally powerful voice in several standout numbers" according to Playbill. Montego has been with Memphis since it started, including four regional productions and appears in the live filming of the musical, Memphis: Direct from Broadway.
Her Broadway debut was as an understudy for Celie and Nettie in the musical The Color Purple.
In other work, she has been a "'Star Wars' videogame avatar and a TV commercial voice-over artist." She worked at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida in the late 1990s.
She also guest starred on the USA Network show, White Collar in the episode "Judgement Day".