Debut full length album My Lovely Enemy released with ECR Music Group out now.

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Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else.
— Judy Garland
 
 

Called “electrifying” by The Huffington Post and “phenomenal” by The New York Times, Grace McLean is a multi-hyphenate actress-singer-writer-teacher. In addition to performing on Broadway (Suffs; Bad Cinderella; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812) and Off (New Group, MCC, LCT3, Public, La MaMa, Vineyard, among others), Grace also makes time for her acclaimed original music. With an artistry that combines Regina Spektor's quirkiness, Nellie McKay's jazz sensibilities, Fiona Apple's cutting introspection, Kimbra's sass and Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs' rhythm, McLean adds up to one beautiful weirdo. Manhattan User's Guide writes, "this pop and jazz singer writes seriously infectious melodies with seriously antic lyrics. Her voice can raise the roof, or she can slide off a note and break your heart,” and Stephen Holden of the New York Times says “Ms. McLean’s voice [is] a flexible instrument with unexpected reserves of power...Behind her playful adventurousness lies a well of passion.”

Grace’s first original musical IN THE GREEN was commissioned and produced by Lincoln Center Theater and earned a Richard Rodgers Award for writing and Lucille Lortel for her performance. She received a Vivace Award in 2023, a Jonathan Larson Grant in 2021 and is a Broadway Women’s Fund Woman to Watch. Grace is the 2017 recipient of the Hunt Family Emerging Artist Award through Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and her band headlined the Lincoln Center American Songbook in both 2015 and 2016. The band toured Pakistan as artistic ambassadors with the US State Department in 2015 and Grace traveled to Russia again with the State Department in 2018. She was a headlining performer and vocal instructor at the SingStrong a capella festivals in DC and Chicago in 2014 and again in New York in 2020 and she continues to teach voice privately in New York.  

 

Grace has taught classes at NYU, The New School, Northwestern, UNCC, Orange County School of the Arts, New York Youth Symphony, among others. In New York, you can find her band at Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, Rockwood Music Hall, Ars Nova (where she developed the interactive concert experience Grace McLean: Lives in Concert), and the Museum of the American Indian, where they performed as part of a panel discussion on storytelling for The Economist’s 2012 Ideas Summit. As a solo performer Grace has been seen at Lincoln Center, New York City Center, The McKittrick, BAM, the ACE Hotel (where she collaborates with The Dance Cartel’s show OnTheFloor) and numerous other venues both uptown and downtown. She is also a frequent contributor to Obie winning investagative theater company The Civilians’ cabaret series “Let Me Ascertain You.”

McLean has developed work at SPACE on Ryder Farm, The Orchard Project, The O’Neill, Johnny Mercer Writer’s Colony at Goodspeed, The PiTCH, CAP21, The Civilians R&D Group, and MacDowell. The original cast recording for IN THE GREEN is available on Ghostlight Records. Grace is releasing her first full length album “My Lovely Enemy” in early 2024 and her EPs “Natural Disaster” and “Make Me Breakfast” are streaming now.