Erika is
a proud member and co-founder of Chance Theater alongside her
husband, actor/director Oanh Nguyen, and is a recent graduate
of the Fieldstone Foundation’s Emerging Leaders Group, a
recipient of the Annie Anaheim Accolades Award for her service
to the community, and a member of the Anaheim Arts Council Board
of Directors since 2007 (where she served as president for two
years). She has studied with Anne Reinking at The Broadway Theatre
Project, the Boston Conservatory, USC, and in London with the
British American Dramatic Academy and the Royal Shakespeare Company
through Skidmore College in New York. At an early age she was
a professional singer with The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus,
where she was privileged to perform with such talents as Peabo
Bryson, Barry Manilow, Andre Previn, Yo-Yo Ma, Doc Severinsen
and Luther Vandross, to name a few. She can be heard singing on
the soundtracks of “Hero,” “The Dark Half”
and “Merry Christmas from Doc Severinsen and The Tonight
Show Orchestra.” Her opera credits include “Die Frau
Ohnne Schatten” and “El Gato Montez” with Placido
Domingo at The Music Center, “Carmina Burana” at the
Hollywood Bowl, and “The Magic Flute” at UCLA’s
Royce Hall.
In more recent years, Erika began singing ragtime music locally
with ERIC MARCHESE and has performed
at Old Town Music Hall, Steamers Jazz Club with the Orange County
Ragtime Society, and at RagFest for the past 10 years. Favorite
Chance shows include “Jerry Springer: The Opera” (Ovation
Award, Garland Award, and LADCC-nominated Best Musical, Los Angeles
Times Critic’s Choice and Back Stage Critic’s Pick),
“Little Women,” “Evita” (O.C. Register’s
#1 Event of the Week), “I Love You, You’re Perfect,
Now Change,” “Into the Woods” (Back Stage Critic’s
Pick and Garland Award Honorable Mention: Best Ensemble), “Cabaret”
(Garland Award Honorable Mention, Best Actress), “Closer
Than Ever” (Los Angeles Times Critic’s Choice), “Lee
Miller: The Angel and The Fiend” (OC Weekly Award), and
“As You Like It” (O.C. Register Best Performance).
Erika is also a costume designer and has been nominated for two
Ovation awards for “The Who’s Tommy” and “Hair:
The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.”
For more information on upcoming Chance Theater shows, go to www.chancetheater.com.
You can also email Erika at ecmiller12@gmail.com
for current information on her musical events and to be added
to her email list.
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