Lisa Asher

New York Nightlife Award Winner Back Stage Bistro Award Winner MAC Award Winner Lisa Asher has appeared as an actress and featured vocalist in numerous theatrical and concert venues around the country. Most recently Lisa starred in two critically acclaimed and Award Winning productions of Woody Guthrie’s American Song for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and for The Marin Theatre Company. Other recent theatrical credits include the role of Celeste in Heaven in Your Pocket in the NYMF (New York Musical Theatre Festival) as well as Jessica in the NYMF production of Austentatious. Lisa has appeared in two world premieres, I Married Wyatt Earp at Bristol Riverside Theatre, and Almost Heaven, Songs and Stories of John Denver for the Tony Award Winning Denver Center Theater Company. She can also be heard on the original cast recording of Almost Heaven. Lisa toured nationally with the Broadway show The Who's Tommy and appeared in the Off-Broadway hit Woody Guthrie's American Song which received a Drama Desk Nomination for Best Musical. Lisa was featured in a concert tribute to Woody Guthrie produced by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame where she shared the stage with such rock and folk notables as Bruce Springsteen, Indigo Girls, Ani DeFranco, Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie. Other theatrical credits include: the dual roles of Minnie and Joan in the East Coast premiere of the musical Bingo at The Adirondack Theatre Festival; the role of Topeka in Christmas At The Swingtime Canteen (which required that she musical direct, sing, act and conduct while providing piano accompaniment for the show) at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina; and, one of her favorite roles, that of Doatsey Mae in The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas in Chicago. Ms. Asher is the recipient of a New York Nightlife Award, a MAC Award, and a Back Stage Bistro Award for her solo work in cabarets in New York. Her critically acclaimed debut CD, Let The Mystery Be, was nominated for a MAC Award for Recording of the Year. Lisa's newest CD, Lisa Asher Live at The Duplex, is a faithful recording of her highly successful show that enjoyed a lengthy run at the famed Greenwich Village nightclub, The Duplex. Ms. Asher has performed numerous times for the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Cabaret Conventions in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago and at Town Hall in NYC and was featured as part of their 20th Anniversary Gala performances at Lincoln Center. She has worked for both Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Holland