C. Maggie Young

C. Maggie currently resides in sunny central Florida where she has been seen in Orlando Shakespeare Theater's Kiss Me, Kate (ensemble); the Mark Two's La Cage Aux Folles (Anne); and SummerStage's Urinetown (Soupy Sue) and Leading Ladies (Audrey).  In addition, she has been seen around Orlando in various cabarets including Frogs, It's Today: An Evening With Jerry Herman, and UnLoved. 

She has performed nationally from New Hampshire to Alaska.  For Princess Tours, she played Molly in The Music of Denali.  Other credits include Flat Rock Playhouse: Big River (ensemble), Hampton Playhouse: The Sound of Music (Louisa), Annie Warbucks (Annie), Brigadoon (dancer) and Hansel and Gretel (Gretel), The Great American Melodrama: The Rivals (Lucy), A Witless Rogue (Maria), and The Tavern (Sally).  She also toured the southeast and midwest with the Blue Apple Players in Appalachian Homespun Yarns (Emily) and Make Room for Elves (Pipperly).

In her hometown of Lexington, KY, she was an audience favorite, performing for Lexington Children's Theatre: The Amazing Bone (Pearl), Alice in Wonderland (Alice), A Year With Frog and Toad (Turtle/Bird), and Seussical (Bird Girl); Woodford County Theatrical Association: Lend Me A Tenor (Maggie) and Meet Me In St. Louis (Esther); Lexington Shakespeare Festival: The Comedy of Errors (Luciana) and Inherit the Wind (ensemble); and Actor's Guild of Lexington: The Taffetas (Cheryl).  University of Kentucky Opera Theatre featured her as a soloist in their annual summer revue, A Grand Night for Singing.

C. Maggie holds a BFA in Musical Theatre Performance from Northern Kentucky University, an MA in Theatre from the University of Kentucky, and an MFA in Musical Theatre Performance from the University of Central Florida.  At the University of Kentucky, she studied writing with Kim Edwards (The Memory Keeper's Daughter).  She teaches freshman composition and introduction to literature at Seminole State College of Florida.

'"Attention Must Be Paid,' Cried the Balladeer: The Concept Musical Defined"

"Beyond Blonde: Creating a Non-Stereotypical Audrey in Ken Ludwig's Leading Ladies"  

"After Harry" co-author Dr. Linda Young Kentucky English Bulletin (2008) 57:1