National Capital Cabaret Festival
Susan Derry
Friday, March 29, 2024, 6:00 pm
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Members $30 ~ Non-Members $45 This Show Only
Members $50 ~ Non-Members $65 Evening Pass (two shows)
Members $100 ~ Non-Members $125 Festival Pass:(four shows)
Capital Cabaret is proud to partner with the Arts Club of Washington for the 2nd Annual National Capital Cabaret Festival! Both organizations foster a supportive community that encourages emerging artists and provides a path for them to find their voice. Enjoy the shows we have in store for you! Each performance will be preceded by a cocktail reception with refreshments.
Reception 6:00 pm
Show 7:00 pm
Capital Cabaret:
Capital Cabaret was founded in 2022 as a 501(c)3 non-profit to produce the National Capital Cabaret Festival each March. We are the first organization to bring a dedicated cabaret festival to DC! “March is Cabaret Month” is celebrated nationally in New York, Chicago, Seattle and Minneapolis, but can you believe Washington DC, a cultural as well as political capital did not? We are pleased to open the 2024 National Capital Cabaret Festival with a New Artist Showcase on Friday and bring national headliners to the Arts Club of Washington.
Susan Derry:
An accomplished and versatile actor and singer noted for her “soaring soprano” and “striking theatricality” (The New York Times), Susan Derry is at home in a wide range of roles. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning revival of Wonderful Town and performed the role of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera in Hamburg, Germany with the Neue Flora Theater. She garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of Francesca Johnson in The Bridges of Madison County at Keegan Theatre in Washington DC; the Washington Post proclaimed ”the ace this staging is Susan Derry“ and Broadway World called it the role of her career. Susan sang Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady with the Utah Symphony Orchestra opposite the late Peter Scolari as Professor Henry Higgins and made her Off-Off Broadway debut in The Shrill Collective’s world premiere of Megan Bussiere’s A Period Piece as Sam; the play was a finalist for the 2019 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Prize. Susan’s debut album, I Wish It So is available everywhere music is streamed.
Susan was the centerpiece of the Bold New Works series in Virginia, an initiative to create world-premiere musicals; her performance in the first piece, a new version of The Turn of the Screw, was hailed as “brilliant.” Since then, she has earned accolades as Mary Shelley in Monsters of the Villa Diodati; as a daughter struggling with her mother’s decline from Alzheimers in Kaleidoscope and as a hard-edged single mother in Witch, based on the #MeToo movement. All four works feature Susan prominently on the cast albums.
Discounted parking available after 5 pm at 2001 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
