Grace McLean, a one-of-a-kind performer, writer and composer, sits down for a conversation about finding your voice, creating your own work, embracing your weird, the Marx brothers, and BAD CINDERELLA.

When this episode was recorded and released, Grace was performing as The Queen in Andrew Lloyd Webber's BAD CINDERELLA on Broadway.

Grace is a performer, writer, and composer. Broadway: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. Off-Broadway and Regional: Suffs (The Public), Cyrano (New Group), Alice by Heart (MCC), In the Green (LCT3), Brooklynite (The Vineyard), Row (WTF), Pump Boys and Dinettes (Weston Playhouse). TV: “The First Lady” (Showtime), “The Other Two” (HBO Max). Her original musical In the Green earned her a Richard Rodgers Award for her writing and a Lortel for her performance. Grace McLean & Them Apples performed in the 2015 and 2016 seasons of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, and Grace toured Pakistan and Russia as an artistic ambassador with the US State Department. Writer-in-residence at Lincoln Center, Larson Grant recipient (’21) one of Broadway Women’s Fund’s Women to Watch (’21), Civilians R&D Group (’19–’20), MacDowell Fellow (’18), Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award (’17). The original cast recording for In the Green and EPs Make Me Breakfast and Natural Disaster are available now.

On The Come Up, host Matt Rodin sits with creative people to find out where they’re at, today, in the journey of becoming who they are. What unfolds are often inspiring, transcendental, and candid conversations about the reality of being a growing artist. 

Matt believes that love is who we are. He taps into people’s light so that we can form deeper connections with ourselves and one another. He’s a queer maker of music, media, characters, and campfires. As an actor, Matt recently starred in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Milwaukee Rep, and the upcoming musical film BEAU. In 2020, he released his first live solo album, Matt Rodin: Live at Home. Matt has also worked as a content producer and consultant for The Tony Awards, The Smithsonian Institute, SoulCycle, Hamilton, Cynthia Erivo, Ingrid Michaelson, Playbill, Broadway.com, Dear Evan Hansen, Write Out Loud, and more. 

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