About
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Annie is an actress and singer of musical theatre, opera, and contemporary repertoire. Hailed by the LA Times as "especially impressive" and "a perky sensation," Annie recently played Elsa Schraeder in the International Broadway Tour of The Sound of Music (orig. dir. Jack O’Brien), Jess (Belle U/S, Little Fan U/S) in Warchus & Thorne’s Tony Award-winning adaptation of A Christmas Carol, and Anna (alternate) in the Lincoln Center National Tour of The King and I (orig. dir. Bartlett Sher). Annie has performed solo concerts nationwide and premiered her original English translations of Edith Piaf's songs in a one-woman-show at The Green Room 42 (NYC).
Other recent roles include: Mrs. Nordstrom (Anne U/S) in A Little Night Music at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Elsa Schraeder (U/S) in the National Tour of The Sound of Music (orig. dir. Jack O'Brien), Evelyn Nesbit in the site-specific concert of Ragtime on Ellis Island (dir. Sammi Cannold), Witch in LA Opera’s Macbeth (dir. Darko Tresnjak), and many more (see resumé).
In addition to her stage endeavors, Annie is a dancer and film & tv actress, and plays the accordion and guitar. She is a devoted language nerd, having studied French, Italian, German, and Spanish, and is now on to her latest endeavor: Mandarin! Annie holds a Masters of Music in Vocal Performance from UCLA and a B.A. in Music and Human Biology from Stanford University.
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“The lovers, Nannetta and Fenton, were especially impressive. The young soprano Annie Sherman, starting to be seen around town, is a perky sensation.”
“Annie Sherman’s Elsa [is] delightful in their two songs “How Can Love Survive?” and “No Way To Stop It.””
“Annie Sherman was just plain magnetic... She gave the best stage performance I have ever seen.”
““She’s very good,” my friend Steve turned to me and said after one of her duets... He’s right, she is, very, very good. ”
“Annie Sherman was a radiant Nanetta who sang with a liquid silver sound.”
“Fourteen exceptionally talented singer-actors from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany have been selected as finalists in the 2015 Lotte Lenya Competition, held annually by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music.”
“Annie Sherman’s Frenchie is every bit as zesty as she was on Opening Night. (Sherman gets extra kudos for her perfekt bilingual pre-show announcements.)”
“Everybody is great, but the standout for me is Annie Sherman, who plays Frenchie. SO very gifted, with a mesmerizing presence.”
