Whitney bashor biography

Whitney Bashor's Broadway debut in The Bridges of Madison County was a brief three-month run in a role with no dialogue.

And yet her performance became one of the most memorable of the season, earning her Actors' Equity's 2014 Clarence Derwent Award as the year's most promising female performer.

She did double duty as Marian and Chiara — two minor roles compared with the musical's central characters Robert and Francesca (played by Steven Pasquale and Kelli O'Hara).

But as Marian, Robert's folk-singing ex-wife, the show's Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown gave Bashor the song "Another Life" — a musical homage to the great Joni Mitchell, which she performed beneath the Broadway spotlight each night at the Schoenfeld Theatre.

The song has become an indelible part of the actress' repertoire and is now the epicenter of Bashor's September 15