Asmeret Ghebremichael

Asmeret Ghebremichael is a singer, director, and actress. She grew up in Churchill, Pennsylvania, and took dance and musical theater lessons as a child at the Abby Lee Dance Company. In 1999 she made her Broadway debut in Footloose, where she played Rusty, Wendy Jo, Urleen, and ensemble parts. She later joined the Broadway ensembles of Wicked and Spamalot, played the minstrel in the latter, and performed off-Broadway in Lone Star Love and In the Heights, winning a Drama Desk Award for In the Heights. Her role as Pilar in the Broadway staging of Legally Blonde: The Musical (2007) came in 2007, and the show was filmed for television; from 2008 she also understudied Shandi and Brooke Wyndham. Her other credits include the film Confessions of a Shopaholic, the web series Submissions Only as Raina Pearl, a munchkin in the 2015 NBC broadcast of The Wiz Live! (2015), and Lorrell Robinson in the West End cast of Dreamgirls in 2017.