Dru Daniels.

Awarded Best Supporting Performer in a Musical (non-professional) for the 2023 Boston Broadway Awards for her role as Lily in The Secret Garden at The Company Theatre, Dru Daniels is a full lyric soprano with a passion for musical theatre. Most recently seen as Sibella in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Dru has also enjoyed playing Marie, the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, and Nanette/St. Catherine in Born to Do This at the Company Theatre. During spooky season, she  enjoyed scaring children with her portrayal as Winnie in the Hocus Pocus Spooktacular at Southwick Zoo.

Dru received her  Master's in Music from Brigham Young University in 2016 and has sung on the stages of Carnegie Hall, the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, and performed the title role of Massenet’s Manon, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, and Pamina in Mozart’s Magic Flute.  Dru made her Savannah Music Festival debut as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte where she worked closely with Sherrill Milnes, Aurthur Fagen, and Joachim Schamberger.

 

A 2015 fellow at the Music Academy of the West, Dru was the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and was awarded the Irma and Morrie Jurkowitz Full Scholarship. She was a District Winner and Regional Utah Award recipient at the 2014 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, winner of the Utah Valley Symphony Young Artist Competition and Phi Kappa Phi Performing Arts Competition, and was a quarterfinalist in the American Traditions Competition. Dru participated in Carnegie Hall's The Song Continues Master Class Series to work with world-renowned singers Marilyn Horne, Stephanie Blythe and Sir Thomas Allen, and famed coaches Warren Jones and Ken Noda for a week residency at Carnegie Hall.