Sara Gettelfinger

American actress and singer

Sara Gettelfinger (born 1977 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American actress, singer, and dancer.

Gettelfinger was raised in Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana. She graduated from the Youth Performing Arts School at duPont Manual High School in 1995. Gettelfinger studied at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music where she earned a BFA in 1999.

Three weeks after moving to New York City, Gettelfinger got her first professional acting role as "April" in the Helen Hayes Theatre Company's production of Stephen Sondheim's Company in Nyack, New York. Gettelfinger performed in regional theater across the country before landing her first Broadway role as "Bird Girl" in the musical Seussical. Her first starring role on Broadway was as "Carla" in the musical Nine with Antonio Banderas. with John Lithgow, Sherie Rene Scott, Gregory Jbara, and Joanna Gleason, briefly leaving the role to play "Little Edie" in the original off Broadway run of Grey Gardens (replaced by Erin Davie when the show moved to Broadway). Gettelfinger is one of the singing trio Three Graces, which blends the musical styles of its three members' backgrounds: Broadway (Gettelfinger), Opera (Joy Kabanuck), and Pop (Kelly Levesque). Their first public performance was October 29, 2007, at the second annual Cole Porter Like Salon, a Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit. In early 2008 the group toured the United States, Canada, and Mexico with Paul Potts, stopping in 20 cities. Three Graces released its debut album on March 4, 2008. Gettelfinger played Morticia Addams in the first national tour of The Addams Family, which ran from September 2011 through December 2012.