Bio

Devra Seidel is an actor, singer, classically trained pianist and musical director. She is a currently a South Florida based actor, a long time New Yorker and works as a vocal coach and piano instructor at the Broadway Bound Academy and guitar center.  For five years Devra was the music director for Kids Company Showcase at the West Side YMCA in Manhattan, a children's after school musical theater program which she helped to create. In 2017 following the tragic Orlando shooting, Ms. Seidel collaborated with friends to create a benefit concert at the Triad Theatre and prior to the pandemic Devra produced a short film which she also wrote. As an accompanist, Devra has played for various festivals including Planet Connections and the Midtown International Theatre Festival. Favorite acting roles include Mary Flynn in Merrily We Roll Along, Rosemary in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, Anne Frank in A Diary of Anne Frank and Elizabeth Lavenza in Eric Sirota’s ‘Day of Wrath’ with Emerging Artists Theatre.  Devra continues to feel enormous gratitude to her late teacher and mentor, Kelly Kimball from the Kimball studio, who was and continues to be a tremendous inspiration as well as the entire faculty there. Ms. Seidel has a Bachelors’ of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Masters’ of Music from the Manhattan School of Music.