Felicia Curry is a singer and actor from Washington, D.C., who hosts the “WETA Arts” TV show on WETA/PBS and was part of the Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival and national tour of “Into the Woods.”
Off Broadway, she led the company of “Fabulation” in reopening the iconic Billie Holiday Theatre in New York and was nominated for an AUDELCO Award, which honors achievement in New York’s Black theater community, for the solo show “Queens Girl in the World” at the Abingdon Theatre Company.
Curry is a Helen Hayes Award winner for her performance in “Lela & Co.,” a Richmond Theatre Community Circle Award winner for “The Color Purple,” a Berkshire Theatre Critics Award winner for “Nina Simone: Four Women,” and a recipient of the Anderson Hopkins Award for Excellence in the Theater Arts. In 2020, she was nominated for two Helen Hayes Awards for her performances in “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” and “Agnes of God.”
She is an artistic associate at Ford’s Theatre in Washington and a resident company member at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore. Curry also has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Curry, who is a New Jersey native and a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, has been named one of “12 D.C. Stage Dynamos” by The Washington Post, and one of “D.C.’s Biggest Theater Stars” by Washingtonian magazine. In 2024, The Baltimore Sun raved about her one-woman cabaret show, “Baltimore, Broadway and Beyond,” calling it a “brilliant, high-energy performance.”