Julia Murney
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Julia Murney is an American actress and singer, primarily featured in theatre and television commercial voice-overs.
Murney's off-Broadway theatrical credits include Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party as "Queenie" at the Manhattan Theatre Club, opposite Brian d'Arcy James, Idina Menzel, and Taye Diggs, for which she was nominated a Drama Desk Award. She was also seen in The Vagina Monologues, Crimes of the Heart, A Class Act, Time and Again, and First Lady Suite.
Murney made her debut on Broadway in 2005, in the musical Lennon. She was also seen in the Actors' Fund benefit concerts of Funny Girl, Chess, Hair, and the World AIDS Day Benefit Concert Pippin.
She has also been featured on television in Sex and the City, Ed, NYPD Blue, and Law & Order.
Her debut solo album, I'm Not Waiting, was released in May 2006. She can also be heard on the original cast albums of The Wild Party and A Class Act, and the Actors' Fund recording of Hair.
Daughter of Christoper and Anne Murney, Julia was named for the song "Julia" from The Beatles White Album.
Murney starred as Elphaba in the national touring company of the musical Wicked from March 8, 2006 to September 3, 2006. In that role, she won an Acclaim Award from the Cincinnati Enquirer for leading performer in a musical.
Murney is currently reprising her role as Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked.
