Mary Bridget Davies

Involved in the arts since before school age, Mary is definitive of "the Total Package". As a dancer, vocalist, and former member of Cleveland's own Something Dada Improvisational Comedy Company she seriously knows her way around the stage. She begun dancing at age three and has excelled ever since. A recipient of the Debbie Reynolds Scholarship for Jazz in Los Angeles at age 15, Mary was not only dancing. Her talents as a songstress were now beginning to emerge. She got hip to the blues jam nights. She went and watched with her parents. She asked to sit in, but she was encouraged to listen that week and come back next week to sing. She listened and came back. She was in the last group of the jammers and she sang, "Please Send Me Someone to Love" by Percy Mayfield, which is presently one of her signature songs. She was asked to be in the band Blues Explosion that same night. She learned as she went, and started building a solid reputation. Mary Bridget hasn't stopped chirping since.

No doubt you'll be reminded of the likes of Janis Joplin, Etta James, Aretha Franklin and Chaka Kahn but you'll definitely notice she also has an element all her own. Mary has shared the stage with groups like Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Leon Russell, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Bobby Rush, Huey Lewis and the News, W.C. Clark, Renee Austin, Walter Trout, Delbert McCLinton adn the list geos on. Mary Bridget made her Off-Broadway debut in the smash musical Love, Janis at Playhouse Square's Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. She continued on in the role of Janis Joplin in Aspen, CO, San Francisco, CA and Kansas City, MO. Mary made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award nominated musical "It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues" this past summer.

A few quick kudos: * Recipient of the BEST VOCALIST AWARD by the Cleveland Free Times * International Blues Challenge Finalist 2005 * Won award for BEST MOMENT IN THEATRE 2007 by the Kansas City Pitch for my role as Janis Joplin in the Off-Broadway smash musical, Love, Janis which was the inaugural production at KC's new Copaken Stage located in the H&R Block Building. * Will be starring in the KC Rep Theatre's "New Year's Repartee 2007" from December 28-December 31st at the UMKC Campus Cherry Street Theatre. A musical review of songs from Love, Janis, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, Hank Williams: Lost Highway and more! Most recently, Mary Bridget starred in the National Tour of Love, Janis in 2008.