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Anne L. Nathan

American actress and singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ22957828
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Anne L. Nathan is an American actress and singer known for her work on Broadway.

Career

Anne L. Nathan made her Broadway debut in 1998 as Brigit in Ragtime. Other Broadway credits include: Funny Girl (Mrs. Straykosh) It Shoulda Been You as Aunt Sheila/Mimsy, Baruska in the Broadway musical Once, Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of Sunday in the Park with George playing Nurse, Mrs. and Harriet, Matron “Mama” Morton in Chicago, Emma Goldman in Assassins, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Miss Flannery) and Ragtime.

Off-Broadway: Singstreet at NYTW, Joe Iconis’s Broadway Bounty Hunter, Sun Down Yellow Moon (Ars Nova /Woman’s Project) Taming of the Shrew at The Delacorte (The Public Theater) Wings at 2ST; Marthe in the Encores! production of Music in the Air; Aunt Eva in Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show at The Public Theater; and Swingtime Canteen.

She has toured with the national companies of Chicago (Carbonell Award), Les Misérables and Aspects of Love.

Nathan’s regional credits include Mrs. Fezziwig in McCarter Theater’s A Christmas Carol, Lucienne in A Flea In Her Ear, at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, She has played Charlotte in Falsettos at both George Street Playhouse and The Huntington Theatre Company.

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