Draft:Amber Ardolino

Amber Nicole Ardolino (born August 22, 1993) is an American actress, singer and dancer.

Early life and education
Amber grew up in the small town of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

She started dancing at the age of 3 and took voice lessons at the age of 13. She also took theater classes at Point Park University during high school.

She graduated from Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in 2011 and attended Syracuse University for a year before she left to join the 2nd National Tour of West Side Story as Bebecita in 2012.

Career
Ardolino was a semi-finalist for The Glee Project season 2.

On her freshman year at Syracuse University, she skipped class to audition for the West Side Story National Tour in which she got cast as Bebecita, one of the Shark Girls, and Anita's understudy. After touring for about a year, she then toured on the Norweigan Cruise Line doing Legally Blonde. She was next seen on Flashdance the national tour as a member of the ensemble as well as an understudy for the lead role, Alex.

After 3 years of touring different shows, she auditioned for Rock of Ages in Las Vegas. It was later on that day when she found out she was cast as a swing and then moved on to take over the role of Sherrie.

While on a break after suffering a sprained ankle, Ardolino auditioned for the Chicago production of Hamilton the American Musical. After a month long of audition and callbacks, she was cast in the ensemble as Woman 1 and an understudy for the role of Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds. She got to open the show as a member of the original Chicago company on October 16, 2016 at the CIBC Theatre. She then learned all the female ensemble tracks and became a universal swing, which eventually got her transferred to New York and later made her Broadway debut on January 20, 2018.

While doing Hamilton in Chicago before her Broadway debut, her fellow cast mate who was leaving the show to do Head Over Heels taught her the audition combo, which they then filmed and sent in to the choreographer as her audition tape. Ardolino was on vacation when she found out she got hired off of the audition tape. It was the first show where she got to originate a track. After the show's out-of-town tryout which ran from April 10 to May 16, 2018 in San Francisco at the Curran Theatre rehearsals for the Broadway production started in New York. As she was rehearsing for Head Over Heels in the afternoon, she went and did Hamilton at night from the end of May through the end of June 2018. The show opened at the Hudson Theatre on July 26, 2018 and closed on January 6, 2019.

She has been seen modelling for E! news for New York Fashion Week in 2018.

Before Head Over Heels closed on Broadway, Ardolino did the developmental lab for Jagged Little Pill after their run in Boston and was then cast in the ensemble.

In April 2019, she provided vocals for the tracks "Big Spender" and "Mein Herr" on FX's Fosse/Verdon.

It was later announced that Ardolino was cast in Moulin Rouge! the Musical on Broadway, though having previously announced that she was going to be in Jagged Little Pill. The show opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on July 25, 2019. As a swing, she made her Broadway principal debut playing the lead role, Satine on December 3, 2019.

She was seen as a dancer in the Pilot episode of Katy Keene on CW which premiered on February 6, 2020.

A music video for End up Together, a song she was featured on alongside former cast mate Bonnie Milligan for Within Earshot: Anthems for the In-between was released on April 16, 2020, followed by the digital release of the concept album on April 21, 2020.

She has provided vocals for In The Heights (2021) movie.

On July 29, 2021, the full cast of Broadway's return of Hamilton was announced, after 18 months of the industry being shut down due to Covid-19, where she would be in the ensemble as a swing.

She was featured in Law & Order: SVU's season 23 episode premiere.

She was in the revival cast of Funny Girl as Vera, which opened at the August Wilson Theatre on April 24, 2022.

A concept album for a new musical called The Last Match: A Pro Wrestling Rock Musical was announced to be released on July 11, 2022, where she would be featured in the song "When It All Falls Down" with Ramin Karimloo. They announced their full cast on September 9, 2022, where she would be playing the role of Jenny, with Karimloo and Matt Cardona. On September 26, 2022, Ardolino joined the cast for two live performances of The Last Match in Jersey City, NJ at White Eagle Hall. The show was announced to return for two encore performances on October 24.

On January 5, 2023, a cover of "Eye on the Prize" from Ranked was released along with a music video, starring Amber Ardolino, JJ Niemann and Alex Wong.

She was cast in the broadway production of Back to the Future: The Musical in 2023 as Linda Mcfly.

It was announced that she would be making her first broadway principal role in A Beautiful Noise, replacing Robyn Hurder as Marcia Murphey, starting January 2, 2024 alongside Nick Fradiani.