Jillian Kates is a musical theater artist based out of Brooklyn, NY. She holds a Bachelor of Music from the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music. Credits include the Broadway Nat’l Tour of Wicked as the Glinda/Nessarose cover where she toured much of the U.S. and part of Canada. After a couple of years in Oz she joined the resident acting companies of Great Lakes Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival where for the last decade she has been able to grow her artistry with roles like Eliza in My Fair Lady, Portia in Julius Caesar, Lily in The Secret Garden, Stephano in The Tempest, Donna in Mamma Mia, Jane in Pride and Prejudice, Marian in The Music Man, Helen in Murder on the Orient Express, Hélène in The Great Comet of 1812, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and most recently The Witch in Into the Woods. She looks forward to a long life ‘on the boards’ and hopes to one day run her own theater company and youth acting program out of a commune with her wild and wonderful group of friends!