Broadway Master Class Series | Christiane Noll
Four multi-award-nominated Broadway performers will teach virtual master classes for Stephens students this April. Students who are considering Stephens, along with alumnae and other members of the Stephens community, are invited to attend and observe.
About Christiane Noll
Christiane Noll, a New York-born, New Jersey-raised actress, received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations and won a Helen Hayes Award for her portrayal of Mother in the Kennedy Center Revival of Ragtime on Broadway. She starred in the record-breaking First National Tour of Dear Evan Hansen. She made her Broadway debut creating the role of Emma in Jekyll & Hyde, receiving a FANY award for Best Actress in a Musical. Noll received her second Drama Desk nomination for her work in Chaplin on Broadway. She has been seen perennially as Sister Margaretta in NBC’s The Sound of Music Live with Carrie Underwood, and she supplied the singing voice of Anna in the Warner Brothers animated feature The King and I.
She has also enjoyed starring in Broadway productions of Elf (at Madison Square Garden), It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, and on tour in Urinetown (Ovation Award), The Mambo Kings, Grease!, Miss Saigon and City Of Angels, as well as a tour of Australia and Thailand of South Pacific.
With a reputation for great versatility, Noll has performed a varied repertoire in Broadway, Operetta and Jazz. She has been a frequent guest soloist with symphony orchestras in every state in the U.S., as well as international appearances with Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Sinfonica Brasileira in Rio, China Philharmonic with concert pianist Lang Lang, and orchestras in Hong Kong, Czech Republic and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with Skitch Henderson, in his last pops performance with The New York Pops and sang with Steven Reineke in Sondheim! The Birthday Concert at Carnegie Hall. She made her Hollywood Bowl and O2 Arena debut singing with Julie Andrews in Gifts of Music and her opera debut with Placido Domingo in The Merry Widow at the Kennedy Center as well as operetta performances in City Center Encores! The New Moon, The Student Prince, The Pirates of Penzance, and the Mikado.
Noll has premiered shows Off-Broadway and regionally: Snow Child, October Sky, City Center Encores! 1776, John Kander’s Kid Victory, The Cottage, They’re Playing His Songs, Ace (Helen Hayes nomination), The Witches of Eastwick, The Piper, Frankenstein, Kept (Krieger/Russell), Call The Children Home, A Fine And Private Place, Take Flight (Maltby/Shire), Little By Little and Lizzie Borden.
She happily starred in favorites Next to Normal (Connecticut Critics Circle award), Follies (St. Louis Critics Circle award), Closer Than Ever (Off-Broadway Alliance award), Beauty And The Beast, Mary Poppins, 1776, The King & I, Little Shop of Horrors, Into the Woods, Mack & Mabel (Connecticut Critics Circle Award), The Baker’s Wife, The Sound of Music (Salzburg Marionette Theatre), and Carousel.
Noll as also enjoyed television performances on Law & Order SVU, Madam Secretary, and The Good Fight.
She has performed her solo shows in cabaret at 54 Below, The Metropolitan Room, Birdland, The Regency, The Nikko, The Plush Room, The Duplex, The Nevermore, Arci’s Place, The China Club, Peaches, B.Smith’s and The West Bank Café, as well as appearing in Town Hall's Broadway By The Year and the Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series.
Along will many cast albums and compilation recordings, she has released five solo CDs: Christiane Noll – A Broadway Love Story and The Ira Gershwin Album, both on Fynsworth Alley, Live at The Westbank Café on 2Die4 Records, My Personal Property on Jay Records and Gifts – Live At 54 Below on Broadway Records.
Noll is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
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