Montego Glover

Montego Glover (born February 9, 1974) [1] 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.

Montego Glover
Glover in 2012
Born (1974-02-09) February 9, 1974
Macon, Georgia, USA
OccupationActress, singer

From September 9th 2017 to March 31st, 2019, Glover portrayed Angelica Schuyler in the Chicago cast of the Broadway blockbuster Hamilton [2]

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.[3] Glover sang in church choirs "for as long as I can remember".[4]

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).[5] She displays a "rich, rangy and emotionally powerful voice in several standout numbers" according to Playbill.[6] Montego has been with Memphis since it started, including four regional productions[7] 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."[8] She worked at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida in the late 1990s. Her voice is featured on the Festival of the Lion King official soundtrack.[9]

She also guest starred on the USA Network show, White Collar in the episode "Judgement Day".

Work

References
  1. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KJTK-X5D Date of birth, familysearch.org; accessed May 31, 2014.
  2. https://twitter.com/montegoglover/status/1106212906910257152
  3. "Biography" Archived 2010-06-28 at the Wayback Machine montegoglover.com, retrieved June 13, 2010
  4. Wontorek, Paul."Montego Glover on Her Roof-Raising Broadway Turn in 'Memphis'" broadway.com, November 5, 2009
  5. Morales, Wilson."'Memphis,' 'Fences,' Viola Davis, Montego Glover Win Drama Desk Awards" bvnewswire.com, May 24, 2010
  6. Gans, Andrew."Chatting with Memphis' Montego Glover" Archived 2009-12-07 at the Wayback Machine December 4, 2009
  7. Healy, Patrick."Six Years in ‘Memphis’: Rock ’n’ Roll ’n’ Changes"The New York Times, December 17, 2009
  8. Gamerman, Ellen."Actress Montego Glover on 'Star Wars,' Charmin ads and Jamaica"The Wall Street Journal, October 9, 2009
  9. Palm, Matt."Ex-Disney Entertainer Montego Glover Is Hoping For A Tony Award" Archived 2012-10-20 at the Wayback MachineOrlando Sentinel, June 10, 2010
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