Bethany is a Chicago-based actor, singer and songwriter most recently seen as Yitzhak in Hedwig and The Angry Inchat Milwaukee Rep; where she also recently starred in the US premiere of the one-woman show Songs For Nobodies, and appeared in The Color Purple, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Ragtime, Man Of La Mancha, A Christmas Carol. Other credits include: Into The Woods(Witch), A Moon For The Misbegotten (Josie Hogan) at Writers Theater; Porgy and Bess (Serena) at Court Theatre, Marry Me A Little, Nine, In Trousers (Porchlight Music Theater), Little Shop of Horrors(Audrey II) at Geva Theatre, The Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare), Fool Me Twice, Deja Vu (Second City), Hair (Paramount Theatre), Iphigenia In Aulis (Getty Villa), Hairspray (Skylight Music Theater), Oliver! (Marriott Lincolnshire). Bethany appeared in the second seasons of Empire (FOX) and You're So Talented (OpenTV), and is a proud recipient of a Joseph Jefferson Award, a Black Theatre Alliance Award, and a 3Arts Award in Music. As a singer/songwriter, Bethany is a regular performer at The Fly Honey Show, The Paper Machete, The Hideout and in Steppenwolf's LookOut series. She's done concerts for WBEZ, WFMT, WTTW and the Chicago Humanities Festival, and was a featured local artist in Renee Fleming’s Chicago Voices Project at the Lyric Opera. In 2017, she released an EP of original music called First (available everywhere) and an LP as one quarter of the alt-country project- Jon Langford's Four Lost Souls, (self-titled album out on Bloodshot Records). Bethany's highly anticipated debut album BT/SHE/HER is due out in late August. Bethany is represented by Stewart Talent. @bethanyt80. bethanythomasmusic.com