Lisa Howard

Education

Howard was raised in Akron, Ohio, and graduated from Firestone High School. She went on to graduate from University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre.

Career

Howard is most known for playing Siobhan in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Participant 2 and Rona Lisa Peretti in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She played softball, soccer, volleyball, and a little basketball in her youth. Howard originated the role of Jenny Steinberg in the Broadway production of David Hyde Pierce-directed lieutenant Shoulda Been You.

Howard played the older sister of a Jewish bride, played by Sierra Boggess, whose wedding with David Burtka"s character is disrupted when her ex-boyfriend shows up at the wedding.

Additional cast members included Tyne Daly and Harriet Harris. Playbill Online named her performance of Jenny"s Blues at the 2015 Tony Awards one of the show"s "greatest moments," and Rolling Stone called it one of the ceremony"s best moments.

Broadway lieutenant Shoulda Been You (2015) - Jenny Steinberg (April 14-August 9, 2015) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005) - Rona Lisa Peretti South Pacific (2008) - Lieutenant Genevieve Marshall/Ensemble 9 to 5 (2009) - Missy/Ensemble Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (2011) - Diva/Ensemble (replacement) Office-Broadway The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005) - Rona Lisa Peretti Silence! The Musical (2005) - Catherine Martin Regional/National tours Cinderella (Street Louis MUNY, 2003) - Stepsister The Gift of the Magi (Olney Theatre Center, 2003) - City Her The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Barrington Stage Company, 2004) - Rona Janet Les Miserables (Street Louis MUNY, 2007) - Madame Thérnadier Emmet Otter"s Jug-Band Christmas (Goodspeed Opera House, 2008) - Mistress

Gretchen Fox 9 to 5 (Ahmanson Theatre, 2008) - Missy/Ensemble Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter (Goodspeed Opera House, 2009) - Mistress

Gretchen Fox Legally Blonde (Street Louis MUNY, 2011) - Paulette The Sound of Music (Pittsburgh CLO, 2011) lieutenant Shoulda Been You (George Street Playhouse, 2011) - Jenny Steinberg.

Achievements

• Spelling Bee went on to win many awards, including the Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble. She created the character of Jenny in the new Broadway musical lieutenant Shoulda Been You, receiving a nomination for the 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. Foreign her performance, Howard was nominated for the 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical.

Membership

In 2012, she was cast as Siobhan, a member of an Irish coven, in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Participant 2.