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Amber Gray currently stars as the scene-stealing Persephone in the Tony Award winning Best Musical Hadestown, for which she received a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and won the Outer Critics Circle Award in the same category, among numerous honors. She has appeared in every iteration of Hadestown’s development beginning at New York Theatre Workshop, through Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre and London’s National Theatre, leading to its current, record-breaking Broadway engagement. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony-nominated Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet Of 1812 opposite Josh Groban, for which she won the Theatre World Award. Hadestown and Great Comet mark the latest in her long-time theatre collaborations with Tony-winning director Rachel Chavkin.  She can always be found developing new shows with Chavkin’s Brooklyn based, devised theater company The Team or with radical performance community Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.  Amber also memorably starred in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Obie winning An Octoroon, Taylor Mac’s Pulitzer Prize finalist A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music, and Daniel Fish’s Bard SummerScape Production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! On the television side, she can recently be seen recurring as Gloria Valentine in Barry Jenkin’s Golden Globe Award Winning The Underground Railroad for Amazon. Prior to this, she was in Showtime’s Emmy-nominated limited series Escape At Dannemora, directed by Ben Stiller and starring Patricia Arquette, Benicio Del Toro, and Paul Dano. Amber holds an MFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.