Elena Shaddow most recently starred as Anne Dindon in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles at the Longacre Theater. Her past Broadway productions include The Woman in White (Trevor Nunn dir.), Fiddler on the Roof and Nine (both directed by David Leveaux), Sweet Smell of Success (Nicholas Hytner dir.), and Les Miserables. Off Broadway, Elena most recently starred as Fanny in Fanny at City Center Encores! She was also a member of the Greek Chorus in The Bacchae directed by Joanne Akalitis at The Delacorte Theater as part of The Public Theater's New York Shakespeare Festival. In London, Elena had the honor of playing Magnolia Hawkes in Showboat at the Royal Albert Hall, the first musical of its size to be staged in said venue (Francesca Zambello dir.). National Tours: Clara Johnson in the First National Tour of The Light in the Piazza (2007 Helen Hayes Best Actress Nomination) opposite Christine Andreas (Bartlett Sher dir.). Some of her favorite regional credits include Lili in Carnival! (Papermill Playhouse), Olivia in Twelfth Night and Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest, (both at Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), and Lupita in the world premiere of Frank Loesser's Señor Discretion Himself (Arena Stage - 2005 Helen Hayes Best Actress Nomination). Recent readings/workshops include The Unsinkable Molly Brown at the Denver Center Theater (Kathleen Marshall, dir.) and Love Never Dies by Andrew Lloyd Weber (Jack O'Brien, dir.). Elena graduated from New York University's Steinhardt School with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and is currently pursuing a Masters in Music from there as well. She is originally from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, married to Michael Harrington, and is the proud mother of Adelina Rose Harrington, 3 years old.