LISA LINDSLEY

Lisa Lindsley, who was born in Ogden, Utah, grew up listening to jazz greats like Evans, Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan because her father kept jazz and classical music playing on the stereo. Her mother, who imbued in her a love of theater, was a budding film actress, Carolynn Ross, who had left Hollywood in the 1950s under the advice of her good friend, the producer/director Joseph Mankiewicz, because of the McCarthy-era blacklist. While Lindsley gravitated to the rock and pop music of the day as a young teen, she soon discovered musical theater, a passion that carried through to adulthood. She attended the prestigious California Institute for the Arts (CalArts) theater program, then spent the next decade touring and performing with The Imagination Company. Raising and homeschooling three daughters put her performing ambitions on hold for a few years, but she developed a successful career as a voice-over artist, cast read more...