Career
Born Annie Kemp, she played the role of "Stalacta" in that musical. In the original advertisements, she was billed as "Mission Annie Kemp, Prima donna Contralto from Covent Garden, London, her first appearance in America in six years." She died on August 21, 1876 from injuries sustained from a fall five days earlier, while rehearsing the famed transformation scene of the The Black Crook for a performance at Philadelphia"s National Theater. She was buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia.
