So happy to meet you (albeit virtually)!
Shoshanna Richman decided at an early age to "be Annie" when she grew up.
On her 5th birthday, she went to her first Broadway show: Cats. While she refused to clap until her grandmother guilted her, and spent the bulk of that matinee performance facing backwards to watch the conductor in the monitor, Shoshanna was IN. She now understood that "being Annie" was a real thing called acting and that there was a magical street where you could do it, possibly while dressed as a cat.
Shoshanna eventually convinced her parents that she was deadly serious (and not tone deaf), spending her summers at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, her Saturdays at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts Teen Program, and her every waking minute studying musicals and theatre people, developing a creepy-encyclopedic super-nerd knowledge. She went on to graduate from New York University's Steinhardt School with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance/Musical Theatre.
Shoshanna resides in Astoria and is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association. She would still very much like to be Annie and hopes that you will think of her for any and all Annie-related needs.
New York Theatre
New Stages at the York
Cabaret
In Trousers
Commencing
Twist (the "Oliver" rock musical)
Rags (with Carolee Carmello)
Cocus and Doot
The Vagina Monologues
Swan Song
Love's Fire: Terminating
Our Town
Regional Theatre
Fiddler on the Roof (orig. choreo.)
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
Into the Woods
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Sisters of Swing
Rags
The Producers (orig. choreo.)
Workshops
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
Like You Like It
Babes in Arms
I Love You Because...
TV/Film & Recordings
Conflicts on Request
Big Love
Red Hook
I Heart NY
Songs from Inside My Locker
Never Gonna Be Easy
In Your Dreams
Featured
Frenchie
Swing
Kelli
Nancy
Featured
Peoria
Monologist
Nina
Esther
Emily
Hodel perf., Chava u/s; Grandma Tzeitel
Hodel perf., Chava u/s; Grandma Tzeitel
Grandma Tzeitel
Little Red
Monica
Patty Andrews
Bella
Usherette
Female #2
Rosalind
Agnes
Annie
Season 3 Ad Campaign
Featured
Amanda
Back-up Vocalist
Back-up Vocalist
Featured
York Theatre Company
Secret Theatre
Red Door Theatre Co.
Ethikos Productions
Midtown Int'l Theatre Fest.
World AIDS Day Concerts
Vital Theatre Company
VDay
Estrogenius Festival
Players
Theatre on Madison
Fulton Theatre
Engeman Theatre
Ogunquit Playhouse
American Stage Festival
Lost Nation Theatre
Bristol Valley Theatre
Round Barn Theatre
Ogunquit Playhouse
Theatreworks/USA
Buck & Acquisto
NYU/Goodspeed
NYU TIsch GMTW
HBO / BBDO
Red Sand Media
Take a Ten Podcast
Broadway Records
Jodi Beck
Demo
Jamie McGonnigal / Brian Lowdermilk
Hunter Bird / Chloe Treat / Dan Garmon
Samantha Saltzman / Eric K. Johnston
Jane Shepard / Audrey Alford
Gila Sand / Garrit Guadan
Stafford Arima / Patti Wilcox / Mark Hartman
Mark Armstrong / Dax Valdes / Suzanne Bradbeer
Michelle Dean
Doug Silver / Andrew Frank
Laura Gusso
Bob Bartlett
Gary John LaRosa
BT McNicholl / Andrew Glant-Linden / Mike Pettry
BT McNicholl / Andrew Glant-Linden / Ken Clifton
Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Will Pomerantz
Gary John LaRosa / Doug Silver
Brett Schrier
Bill Burns / Ken Clifton
Kevin Del Aguila / J. Oconer-Navarro / Dev Janki
John Simpkins / Brian Cimmet
Greg Ganakas / Casey Hushion
Ryan Cunningham / Josh Salzman
Brad Harris
Elizabeth Lucas
Andy Roninson / Robby Sandler
Robbie Rozelle / Josh D. Smith
Jodi Beck / Doug Silver
Lucian Piane / Zeke Farrow
Training
NYU Steinhardt, Bachelor of Music: Musical Theatre
Acting: Jack Allison, Diane Ciesla, Nancy Johnston, Bill Wesbrooks, Jen Waldman Studio
Voice: Andrew Byrne, Marianne Challis, Eddie Schnecker, Jared Trudeau
Improv: The P.I.T. (Tom Ridgely, Pat Shay)
On-Camera: Erica Palgon
Dance: Ailey Extension, Broadway Dance Center, Peridance Center, Steps on Broadway
Special Skills
Sight-singing, tight harmonies, quick study, various dialects and voices, [intentionally] bad singing and a further array of stupid tricks, great with kids and animals, looks good with (almost) any color hair