Ilysia Pierce

Ilysia is thrilled to have been asked to participate in the 3rd Annual Best of Broadway..and Everything Else concert! Ilysia’s first solo album, Blessed, is available on CD, and can be found on all streaming services such as Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and more! She has led Shabbat and High Holy Day services for Temple of the Arts since 1999. Ilysia has enjoyed a successful career entertaining audiences on stage, television, (she originated the role of Miss Oops-A-Daisy in PBS, The Huggabug Club), and concert halls. Some highlights include: Janina (Irena’s mother) in a reading of a new musical, Irena Sendler, King David, Beauty and the Beast, playing the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Eva Peron in Evita for which she received a Dramalogue Critics’ Choice Award for Outstanding Performance, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Frumah-Sara in Fiddler on the Roof with Theodore Bikel and Laine Kazan. Ilysia is one of only twelve readers for the first all-female audio bible and is the voice of Mrs. Bennett in a dramatic audio book reading of Pride and Prejudice. Her reputation as a consummate performer has prompted invitations to sing in concerts as a featured guest artist at venues such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Ford Amphitheater, Saban Theatre, a multitude of fundraising events, StandWithUs, Jewish Federation, Pan Pacific Park’s Holocaust Memorial Yom HaShoah, to name only a few. She is honored to have been asked to sing our National Anthem over 100 times! Of all her successes and accomplishments, Ilysia is most thankful for her supportive and loving husband, David, children, Braxton, Madison, and Raynie, family, and friends. Please visit her website www.ilysiapierce.com