Actor and singer Diana Sheehan relocated from New York to Dallas in the fall of 2008. Diana's cabaret show MIDWAY recently played to sold out houses and was chosen as BEST OF THE LOOP 2012 at the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at the Watertower Theatre. Diana appeared in Shooting Star by Steven Dietz, a co-production between the Watertower Theatre and the Adirondack Theatre Festival. She stood by for Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh in the Dallas Theatre Center's production of Arsenic and Old Lace,and went on for Betty Buckley in the role of Martha Brewster. Diana appeared as Elsa Schraeder in The Sound of Music at Casa Manana and with Liz Mikel in Black Pearl Sings at the Watertower Theatre. For the roles of Edith and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens, she received the 2009 Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum Award and the 2009 COLUMN AWARD for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Her Dallas-area debut in Irving Berlin's As Thousands Cheer at Lyric Stage also received the Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum Award for Best Ensemble.

Diana has performed her cabaret pieces at New York's Triad, San Francisco's Plush Room and Boston's Club Cafe championing the American Songbook and featuring such composers as Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and George Gershwin. She starred in the off-Broadway hit, Forbidden Broadway in New York, Boston and on national tour. Regional credits include: San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, American Stage, North Shore Music Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Forum Theatre, and the Jewish Theatre of New England. Diana is a graduate of Smith College and the British-American Drama Academy.

Diana's show, Midway, celebrates in song the journey of mid-life and poses the critical question: Midway: crisis or carnival? Songs are by such composers as: Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, John Bucchino, Leonard Cohen, Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim.

Diana is currently developing two new cabaret shows: Searching for Gertrude Lawrence and a piece that focuses on the lyrics of Lorenz Hart, Unrequited Hart.

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