Kate Baldwin

Kate Baldwin is a two-time Tony Award and four-time Drama Desk Award nominee who has delighted audiences across the country with performances on Broadway, in concert, and on television.

She returned to Broadway last fall to star in Broadway’s Chicago as Roxie Hart, marking her seventh Broadway musical. She previously starred as Irene Molloy in the hit Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, for which she was nominated for the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. She originated the role of Sandra Bloom in Big Fish on Broadway and earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for her work in Giant at The Public Theater. She also received a Drama Desk Award nomination for her role in Keen Company’s 20th Anniversary revival of John & Jen and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Superhero at Second Stage.

But it was her starring role in the 2009 Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow which drew Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations and put her on the map as “a real musical theatre star” (New York Post).

Kate has appeared in the Broadway casts of The Full Monty, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Wonderful Town. Other New York theater productions include Songbird at 59e59 and in The Dead, 1904 for Irish Rep, and Fiorello! and Love Life for City Center Encores.

Baldwin starred in The King and I at Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Light in the Piazza at Opera Theatre of St Louis, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto), The Women at Old Globe, Henry V at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, She Loves Me at Willliamstown Theatre Festival, and The Music Man and South Pacific at Arena Stage, earning a Helen Hayes Award nomination.

She has performed in concert with the American Pops Orchestra, New York Pops, Boston Pops, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Portland Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Chicago Symphony, American Songbook series at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and at the legendary New York nightclubs Feinstein’s, Birdland ,and 54 Below. 

On television, her work includes appearances on The Gilded Age (HBO),  Law and Order: SVU (NBC) Just Beyond (Disney Plus), and Live from Lincoln Center: Stephen Sondheim's Passions, First You Dream: the Songs of Kander and Ebb, and Broadway’s Leading Ladies (PBS).

Kate is a 2023 Chicago/Midwest Emmy nominee, alongside partners at HMS Media for creating and producing “Broadway Comes Home,” a love letter to her hometown of Milwaukee.