1. Connie Champagne won the SF Weekly Wammie Award for Outstanding Cabaret Performer.
17 Facts About Connie Champagne
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Connie Champagne is known for performing the character of actress Judy Garland in productions including Christmas With the Crawfords in 2001 and Imagine Judy Garland: An Evening With Connie Champagne in 2003.
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Connie Champagne won a 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for her role in Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
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Connie Champagne got her start at 9 years old singing with Bob Ringwald at the Placer County Fair.
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In Sacramento, Connie Champagne starred in a summer music workshop production of Jesus Christ Superstar with Eric Martin.
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Connie Champagne starred in the role of Mary Magdalene as Kelly Brock.
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Connie Champagne spent the early 80s as a vocalist for avant garde rock group Clocks of Paradise which featured Michael Belfer of The Sleepers, Mark Isham, Brian MacLeod, and Benjamin Bossi from Romeo Void, which led her to a stint as a back-up singer for Debora Iyall, and eventually Romeo Void.
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Connie Champagne toured extensively with Iyall, including tours with Cyndi Lauper and Jim Carroll.
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Connie Champagne then switched gears and decided to study acting, landing her first role at San Francisco's Magic Theatre in a play titled Love In the 3rd Degree, written by noted actress O-Lan Jones.
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Connie Champagne graduated from Mills College with a BA in Theater Arts.
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In 1992, Champagne starred as Neely O'Hara in Phillip R Ford's adaptation of Valley of the Dolls which ran for four months.
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Connie Champagne was spotted by director F Allen Sawyer, who cast her as the legendary Judy Garland in a holiday spoof titled Christmas With The Crawfords, which ran each holiday season for 12 years, playing in both LA and NYC.
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Connie Champagne then performed at many night clubs as Judy, using her same eclectic approach singing Garland classics along with contemporary songs, produced by Harry Lit and the late Dan Kryston.
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Connie Champagne then was cast in two Los Angeles productions of Judy's Scary Little Christmas, directed by Broadway legend Kay Cole.
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Connie Champagne has done numerous voiceover projects, including the voice of Budgie in the animated feature FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue, voice directed by Jack Fletcher and work with Nik Phelps and the Sprocket Ensemble.
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Connie Champagne performed in the 2008 Dusty Springfield tribute show Brand New Me.
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In 2012, Connie Champagne appeared in Trevor Anderson's Award-winning independent film The Man That Got Away, which was featured internationally, including at Berlinale Berlin, LA's OutFest, and Toronto's HotDocs Film Festivals.