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JUNE ANGELA
is an
American
actress and has been performing since age 5. She received both Broadway's Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations as Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her starring role as Mariko in SHOGUN
and recently
co-starred
opposite
Danny Glover
in the 2
character
play YOHEN, at
East
West Players
in Los
Angeles.
She
received an
Emmy Award
and a Grammy
Award for
her work on
the
worldwide TV
series THE
ELECTRIC
COMPANY
(PBS) with
Morgan
Freeman and
Rita Moreno.
She was a
regular
- Julie of
the Short
Circus and
grew up with
the show
from the
pilot to the
end of
series
episode -
#720.
Numerous starring TV roles in dramas
and
comedy include Madame
Xing the
family
fortune
teller on FRESH
OFF THE
BOAT (ABC), DEXTER
(SHOWTIME),
ER (NBC),
E-RING
(CBS), the
Emmy winning
special FREE TO BE, YOU AND ME
(ABC),
AMERICAN
GEISHA
(CBS),
HANNAH
MONTANA (DISNEY),
CROWNED
(CW) recurring roles
on MAD-TV
(FOX) and being
a regular on
3 series,
including the
first
Asian-American
sitcom MR. T
& TINA with
Pat Morita
(ABC).
Numerous
theater
credits
include
Tuptim in
the Broadway
& London
Palladium
Revival of
THE KING & I
with Yul
Brynner and
starring in
many world
premieres
including
the Off-Broadway acclaimed
epic
CAMBODIA
AGONISTES
and SAYONARA
- in which
her
recording of
the title
song hit the
top of the
NY charts.
She also
starred in
works at
Lincoln
Center,
Public
Theater -
New York
Shakespeare
Festival,
Kennedy
Center,
Pasadena
Playhouse,
East West
Players and
the
Berkshires.
She won a
Theatre
Guild Award
as Best Lead
Actress for
her role in
TEA and also
starred in LATW The
play's the
Thing live
National
Public Radio
production. In
addition,
she was
honored by
Off-Broadway's
Pan Asian
Rep at a
Gala for all
her work in
theater. Extensive
voice work
includes,
Anne Frank
in the
award-winning
REMEMBERING
ANNE FRANK
for National
Public
Radio.
She starred as
an English
woman opposite
Roger
Rees, as a
Southern
Belle opposite
Ruby Dee and
Jena Malone
and opposite
B.D.Wong
starred as
a 10 year
old child in LA
TheatreWorks
NPR Live
Radio
Series.
Animation
and
voiceover work includes
Disney's
critically
acclaimed, Miyazaki animated
film KIKI'S
DELIVERY
SERVICE for
which she
also
is co-writer
of the Main
Title song,
DANNY
PHANTOM, THE
WILD
THORNBERRYS,
THE REAL
ADVENTURES
OF JONNY
QUEST,
BAMBI,
ALADDIN,
SIMBA'S HIDE
AND SEEK,
LONG AGO AND
FAR AWAY,
THE
NIGHTINGALE
and LOVE
TAKES WING.
Among
her
audiobooks,
recordings
for Audible
feature over
30 titles. CD
- Rom Games
include
GUILD WARS 2
- COMMAND
AND CONQUER:
GENERALS
which sold
21 million
units.
June holds the distinction of making the youngest soprano debut with the NYC Opera - at age 10 - as Flora in Benjamin Britten's THE TURN OF THE SCREW and has also sung at Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House and at Wolftrap where she was the invited to sing a Cole Porter tribute with Peter Nero & the National Symphony Orchestra. June is also co-creator/author of a series of children's books entitled THE BIBBLEHOPS published by Warner Books and was lyricist-composer-performer on a Disney music video dealing with multi-culturalism.
Her solo
CD
album,
featuring
full
orchestra
in songs
from
shows
she has
done, as
well as
jazz
songs is
released
by
Original
Cast
Records.
June was invited to be the special guest from America to perform with a 90-piece orchestra in the International Festival of the Arts in Nanning, China for an audience of 40,000, televised live
and
repeated
many
times on Chinese TV. Previous special guests have been k.d. lang and Richard Marx. This big festival encourages worldwide art, so many countries attend. It was
quite an
event.
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