Called “electrifying” by The Huffington Post and “spectacular” by the New York Times, Grace McLean is a multi-hyphenate actress-singer-writer-teacher on the rise. In addition to performing in Off-Broadway hits like Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Brooklynite and Bedbugs!!!, Grace also makes time for her acclaimed original music, both as a solo artist and with her band Grace McLean & Them Apples. With a sound that combines Regina Spektor's quirkiness, Nellie McKay's jazz sensibilities, Fiona Apple's irreverence, Kimbra's sass and Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs' rhythm, McLean adds up to one beautiful weirdo. Manhattan User's Guide writes, "this pop and jazz singer writes seriously infectious melodies with seriously antic lyrics. Her voice can raise the roof, or she can slide off a note and break your heart." Grace was a headlining performer at the SingStrong a capella festivals in DC and Chicago in 2014 along with a capella group Ten of NBC’s “The Sing Off” and singer/songwriter Blake Lewis, runner up on season six of “American Idol.” Most recently, Grace McLean & Them Apples opened the Lincoln Center American Songbook series with a sold out concert on January 21, 2015, and have just returned from a US State Department sponsored tour of Pakistan. Grace’s work as a performer has taken her to Jamaica, Scotland, Italy, Croatia, Serbia and Pakistan. In New York, you can find her and her band at Joe’s Pub, Rockwood Music Hall, Ars Nova (where she developed the interactive concert experience Grace McLean: Lives in Concert), and the Museum of the American Indian, where she performed as part of a panel discussion on storytelling for The Economist’s 2012 Ideas Summit. McLean's pop opera In The Green (about 12th century German mystic Hildegard von Bingen) is currently in development. Grace is set to release her new EP in 2015, featuring the single, and her first feature video, “Natural Disaster". Make Me Breakfast, the 2012 EP from Grace McLean & Them Apples, is available on iTunes now. Find out more at www.gracemclean.com