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Carly Augenstein (she/her)

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Carly is originally from Marion, Ohio, where she spent her early adolescence on the community theater stage.

In 2011, Carly graduated from Syracuse University with a B.F.A in Musical Theatre. Favorite roles include The Narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Harriet in Boy Gets Girl, and Vivian in Revenge of the Space Pandas. Carly also performed original songs in campus comedy shows and saw her one act play, Post Comment, win the Syracuse New Playwrights' Festival. The play was published by Literary Laundry.

After graduating, Carly relocated to NYC. Carly has toured the US (The Civil War, A Christmas Carol) and has performed off-Broadway (Fancy Nancy the Musical). She has also written and performed her own sketches and original characters at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) Theatre and has been involved with several workshops of exciting new plays and musicals, including Anne of Green Gables by Matte O'Brien and Matt Vinson and Sweetwater by Sean Mahoney and Patricia Noonan. In 2018, she was selected as a semifinalist in the Lotte Lenya Competition.

Carly is now Elphaba Standby on the Broadway North American Tour of Wicked. She occasionally defies gravity.

As a voice actor, Carly has lent her voice to clients such as Snapchat, Oakley, Asurion, Verizon, Modsy, Lively, Mirror, and the Ohio Community Development Corporation.

Music-wise, Carly plays bass guitar, flute, and piano. She also dabbles in some other slightly more obscure instruments like the glockenspiel & theremin.

Dec. 23, 2024

Ep. 171 with Wicked's Carly Augenstein

On this episode I talked with Carly her early experiences in theater, starting at age ten with a role in a YMCA production of "Alice in Wonderland," which ignited her passion for performing, her role as Annie in a community …

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