Sara Bareilles is an award-winning singer, songwriter, actor, producer, activist, and New York Times bestselling author whose accolades to date include two Grammy Awards, three Tony Award nominations, and three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. As a recording artist and songwriter, she has sold more than three million albums and 15 million singles in the United States, and her songs have been streamed more than 3.5 billion times worldwide.
On Broadway, Bareilles composed music and lyrics for Waitress, stepping into the lead role both on Broadway and in the West End. Her other musical theater credits include her Tony-nominated performance as the Baker’s Wife in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods, a song on the Tony-nominated score for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, and an Emmy-nominated appearance as Mary Magdalene in NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live. She played Dawn Solano on the Emmy-nominated musical comedy series Girls5eva, the third season of which is streaming now on Netflix. Bareilles is currently at work on a musical theater adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling novel The Interestings, alongside author Sarah Ruhl.