Candy Olsen
Actor, Dancer, Singer, Vintage Maeven
Candy Olsen, originally from Los Angeles California is boldly living in New York City and currently performing in An American in Paris on Broadway directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon.
As a professional dancer, Olsen has danced in dozens of productions including Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera National Tour as a swing/Meg Giry understudy. The tango dancer in Hal Prince's National Tour of Evita, the Las Vegas company and the National Tour of Spamalot, the Las Vegas production of Sinatra Dance With Me by Twyla Tharp and Come Fly Away National tour as Kate and Babe principal swing.
Candy has had the pleasure of being an original cast member of Celine Dion's A New Day, Las Vegas.
She has worked regionally at Goodspeed in the production Pippin. New York City Opera's A Most Happy Fella, Los Angeles' Reprise productions of Kiss Me Kate, Carousel and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. She has performed in Carousel and Showboat at the Hollywood Bowl, in many productions with the Los Angeles Opera, Opera Pacifica, The Sacramento Music Circus, The Bushnell Theater in CT and many other theaters around the world.
In the concert dance world she has worked with DIAVOLO, MOMIX, New Jersey Ballet, Columbia City Ballet and with The National Choreographers Initiative in California creating new works with choreographers Jacque Dambois and Lynne Taylor Corbette.
candy has had the fortune of appearing in numerous regional and national commercials as well as guest spots on regular TV series. You can catch her as a series regular in A&E's hit reality show Storage Wars:New York as "The Flame" and in Winters Tale, a film by Akiva Goldsmen.