Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles has received two Tony Award nominations, three Primetime Emmy Award
nominations and eight Grammy Award nominations, garnering a 2020 Grammy in the category of
Best American Roots Performance for her song “Saint Honesty”. On Broadway, she composed
music and lyrics forWaitress, and stepped into the lead role in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Other musical credits include a song on the Tony Award-nominated score for SpongeBob
SquarePants and Emmy Award-nominated appearance as Mary Magdalene in NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live. Bareilles produced original music and executive produced the musical drama
series Little Voice, teaming up with Jessie Nelson, J.J. Abrams and Apple. She plays Dawn Solano
on the Emmy-nominated musical comedy series Girls5eva, and recently stared as The Baker’s Wife
in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods.
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