Hi folks!
I’m Casey.
Here’s the official version — third person and everything.
Casey Erin Clark is a performer, public speaking coach, singing teacher, recording artist, writer, and entrepreneur in New York City. Performing credits include an unusual Broadway debut as an off-stage singing voice in The Notebook, the national tour of Les Miserables (Factory Girl, understudy Fantine) and the 2013 Oscars performance with the film cast; Neurosis: the musical (Samantha), Frankenstein (Agatha, original cast album) and Shout! the mod musical (Red Girl), all Off-Broadway; 5 New York Musical Festival (NYMF) shows, concerts like Her Song and Lorna’s Pink Party at the world-famous Birdland Jazz Club and the Broadway Loves the 80’s series at Joe’s Pub, and new musicals like The Notebook, The Hatpin, Play Like A Winner (NYMF 2017, Best Featured Actor nomination), The Innocence, and This Life! (based on the classic film Hobson’s Choice). Regional favorites include Spitfire Grill (Percy), City of Angels (Donna/Oolie), Sound of Music (Maria, STL Post Best Actress Award), and Little Women (Jo, Kevin Kline Award nomination). She currently sings with the Grammy-nominated and Tony Award-honored Broadway Inspirational Voices, and can be heard singing backup on Jennifer Nettles’ album Always Like New, among others. In addition to her performing career, Casey has been teaching vocal production, presence, public speaking, singing, and acting the song to clients of all ages for the last 15 years. Through her communication consultancy Vital Voice Training, she also coaches business clients (representing Fortune 500 companies, fast moving startups, business schools, and a dozen different countries) on using their authentic voices to inspire and change the world. Ask her for recommendations of romance novels and the best breakfast restaurants in major cities across the US, or to demonstrate the Lafayette speed rap. Check out Casey’s album, the song begins.
I’m a performer.
I grew up playing ear training games while driving through the cornfields with my Dad on the way to piano lessons, and singing with Mom, Dad, and little bro Von Trapp-style in church (gospel harmony, not leiderhosen)—and earned my BFA in musical theater at Illinois Wesleyan University. Recently, my Broadway dreams came true when I made . . . let’s call it a “back door debut” singing as part of the off-stage vocal ensemble in Ingrid Michaelson’s new musical of The Notebook. You really never know how it’s gonna happen, friends!
My performing credits also include the national tour of Les Miserables (Factory Girl, understudy Fantine) and the 2013 Oscars performance with the film cast; Neurosis: the musical (Samantha), Frankenstein (Agatha, original cast album) and Shout! the mod musical (Red Girl), Off-Broadway; 5 New York Musical Festival (NYMF) shows, and concerts like Her Song and Lorna’s Pink Party at world-famous Birdland Jazz Club (where I sang backup for Lorna Luft and Liza Minelli and almost keeled over dead when Liza sat next to me backstage) and the Broadway Loves the 80’s series at Joe’s Pub. Regional favorites include Spitfire Grill (Percy), City of Angels (Donna/ Oolie), Sound of Music (Maria, STL Post Best Actress Award), and Little Women (Jo, Kevin Kline Award nomination).
Working on new musicals is my favorite thing, and I’ve gotten to do some really special ones, including The Notebook, Big Tent, The Hatpin, Play Like A Winner (NYMF 2017, Best Featured Actor nomination), This Life! (based on the classic film Hobson’s Choice, where I created the role of Maggie Hobson), and The Innocence. Right now, I’m LOVING my life singing with the Grammy-nominated and Tony-honored Broadway Inspirational Voices at everything from Broadway Backwards to the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks to the Today Show with Hugh Jackman, and in a small featured role in an episode of New Amsterdam.
I also love the opportunity to make beautiful noise in a recording studio setting. You can hear me singing backup vocals on Idina Menzel’s latest Christmas album Christmas: A Season of Love and Jennifer Nettles’ Broadway album Always Like New, as well as industrials, demos, and choral performances.
More to the story:
Once upon a time, this small town girl moved to the big city to be on BROADWAY — but the story started to get really interesting when the cliché met reality and I stopped believing that my dreams required a singular focus. Most of what I do centers on my love of the human voice, singing, story-telling, my feminist community, and the soapboxes I enjoy regularly climbing onto. (I have enthusiastic opinions yo.)
Power-posing at the kindergarten Christmas concert
I’m a singing and audition coach for professional actors, aspiring Broadway hopefuls, and passionate amateurs.
I believe that singing should feel easy and joyful, that it is entirely possible to “tell the truth on pitch”, that the you-ness of you is the most important thing to bring to the audition room, that you should love your material, that most “option-up” song endings are silly and unnecessary, and that this business of show is often frustrating but that art should be made anyway. My clients are pros and passionate amateurs, and are slaying on Broadway, in national tours, and at regional theaters all over the country, as well as regularly making me point with wild excitement at the TV.
I teach business folk how to speak with confidence.
A little over a decade ago, I read the book Half the Sky and got very fired up about issues facing women in the world today. The answer to “what can I do?” came out of my passion for the human voice. In 2014, Julie Fogh and I co-founded Vital Voice Training: a voice, public speaking, and communication consultancy out to change the conversation about what leaders are “supposed” to sound like. We help individuals speak, sell, pitch, and present their ideas with grounded confidence, an embodied voice, and a deep connection to their core values, and organizations build healthier communication cultures that value every voice and create the conditions that allow for authentic voices to emerge. Our clients represent everyone from Fortune 500 companies to world-changing non-profits to their own fast-moving startups, come from a dozen different countries, and regularly blow my mind with their brilliance.
Loves: acquiring random skills, never ever following the exact recipe, hiking the Hudson Valley with my husband, the NY library app, DIY projects, farmer’s market food porn, finding (and recommending) breakfast restaurants in most major cities, hiphop kick-boxing class, tulips, romance novels (ask me why they’re feminist AF!), and naps.
I will demonstrate the Lafayette speed rap for you.