This concert is the North Carolina Symphony debut for Kristin Chenoweth.
Emmy® and Tony® Award-winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth’s career spans film, television, voiceover, and stage. In 2015, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, she received an Emmy Award for her role in Pushing Daisies. In 1999, she won a Tony Award for You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and was nominated for her original role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked in 2004. Chenoweth has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and a People’s Choice Award for her role on Glee. Chenoweth earned a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and Broadway.com Audience Choice
Award for her lead role in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s On the Twentieth Century. She also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Drama League Award for the role.
Chenoweth’s next major project is the newly announced musical based on the award-winning 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles. The project, described as “a new musical exploring the true cost of fame, fortune, and family,” will reteam her with her Wicked composer, Stephen Schwartz. She can currently be seen in the second season of Apple TV+’s musical-comedy series Schmigadoon! She received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination for the first season.
In January 2023, Chenoweth released her book I’m No Philosopher, But I Have Thoughts: For Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us—musings on connection, creativity, loss, love, faith, and closure. She recently released her first picture book, What Will I Do with My Love Today?, about a young girl who shares her love through acts of generosity around New York City. Chenoweth is an editor and participant in an essay book, My Moment: 106 Women on Fighting for Themselves. In 2009, she wrote an upliftingly candid, comedic chronicle of her life so far, “A Little Bit Wicked,” which debuted on the New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Best Seller List.
Chenoweth recently teamed up with Kenny Ortega and Monarch Media Team to produce the docuseries 1300 Miles to Broadway, inspired by her theatre program, Broadway Bootcamp. The series follows 8th – 12th graders through master classes in acting, singing, and dancing as they prepare for a future as performers and artists. Chenoweth released her latest holiday album HAPPINESS is…Christmas! in 2021. Her album For The Girls debuted at #3 on the Current Pop Albums chart and #11 on the Billboard Top Albums chart. Chenoweth celebrated the release with a return to the Broadway stage in November 2019, for an eight-performance
concert engagement. The Art of Elegance, her album of American Songbook classics, debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Current Jazz and Traditional Jazz charts and #1 on Amazon’s Vocal Pop chart. Chenoweth also returned to the stage in her limited engagement My Love Letter to Broadway. In 2014, she released a CD and DVD of her own live concert performance, Kristin Chenoweth: Coming Home.
Notable television roles include appearances in American Gods, Trial & Error, The West Wing, Disney’s Descendants, and The Muppets. Chenoweth starred in the holiday film A Christmas Love Story on Hallmark Channel, and hosted the Food Network competition series Candy Land.
Chenoweth formed a charity partnership with the Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center (BAPAC) Foundation in her home state of Oklahoma, with BAPAC naming “The Kristin Chenoweth Theatre” in 2012. She has also created “Places! The Kristin Chenoweth Tour Experience,” a unique educational program for young singers that puts them right next to her performing on stage.
Chenoweth is a graduate of Oklahoma City University with a master’s degree in opera performance. She is an inductee into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, as well as the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.