Anastacia McCleskey is a renaissance woman from Nashville, Tennessee and has been sharing her gifts with the world since the age of ten. She was most recently seen as Dotty in Roundabouts revival of "Caroline or Change and Perkins, Sophie, Mrs. Greer in "ANNIE LIVE!". She premiered her own show at 54 Below "Hello Beautiful Spirits" in August of 2021.

She played MAY in Atlantic Theatres 

world premiere of "The Secret Life of Bees"and the zany/judgemental Nurse Norma in the Broadway hit Waitress (pre shutdown & post shutdown), Becky on the 1st National Tour, and will play Nurse Norma in the LIVE staged movie version of WAITRESS.

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During the shut down Anastacia started a podcast with her brothers called "THEM 3 PODCAST". She had the privilege doing couple of plays with Hartford Stages & New Dramatists via zoom & YouTube. 

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She previously starred as Cherry/ Young Swann in Marcus Gardley's "A Wonder in my Soul" and as Deanie Parker in "STAX, a Soul Musical. Both at Baltimore Centre Stage. She also starred on the West End (London) in Close to You, Bacharach Re-Imagined, at the Menier Chocolate Factory in What's it all About, and was nominated for a 2015-2016 Helen Hayes Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Narrator in Murder Ballad.

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She's been featured in the Broadway companies of Waitress, Violet, The Book of Mormon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Hair, Tarzan, the 1st National tour of Hairspray, tons of local and regional theater around the world, and traveled across Asia with The New York Harlem Singers. You can also catch her weekly on the web series “I Take The Zoe” as Rhonda.

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Anastacia debuted her one-woman show "I Got Love" at The Laurie Beechman Theater in 2007 to rave reviews. She’s played Radio City Music Hall, The Kennedy Center, Madison Square Garden, Yankee Stadium, MetLife Stadium, The Grand Ole Opry, The Ryman Auditorium, New York City Center, The York Theater, le Poisson Rouge, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, Highline Ballroom, and performed with Carnegie Hall Community Sings. Anastacia is the choreographer and plays the role of Izora Rhodes in the upcoming Broadway show, Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical, which was nominated for an Off-Broadway Alliance Award in the category of Best New Musical 2014-15. Anastacia was also nominated for an Audelco Award 2015, for her work as choreographer on Mighty Real. Her voice can be heard on several cast albums (Tarzan, Violet, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and Close to You, Bacharach Re-Imagined) and demos including, Lyons and Pakchar #LOVE Live, and the 2002 theme song for the Special Olympics "Heart of a Lion”.

McCleskey has sung with Burt Bacharach and Patti LaBelle and back-up for Phil Collins, Martha Wash, Bette Midler (BBC Documentary), and Mariah Carey. She has also performed on The Today Show, The View, Good Morning America, The Early Show,The One Show, The David Letterman Show, SNL and the 2011 and 2013 TONY Awards.

 

TV: New Amsterdam, 2020/2021

      The Good Fight, 2019-2020

      fka TURNING POINT, 2019

      Madam Secretary, 2018

      Marvels Daredevil on Netflix 2018

      Public Morals, 2015

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Film: Sex and the City 2

     

 

Upcoming: Check out her poetry project via instagram @anastacia_mccleskey_writes