Annaleigh Ashford quotes:
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I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.
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I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight's Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent.
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I was born and raised in Denver, CO.
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I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer,
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My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.
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There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists,
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I've always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.