Christine Pedi
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Christine Pedi is a television
Television
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 and theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 actress. She is also a cabaret performer
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...

 and radio personality
Radio personality
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 and younger cousin of the late Tom Pedi.

Theatre

Broadway

She has appeared in three Broadway-theatre
Broadway theatre
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 productions in New York City
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, New York
New York
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.
  • Little Me
    Little Me (musical)
    Little Me is a musical written by Neil Simon, with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. The original Broadway production was memorable with Sid Caesar in multiple roles with multiple stage accents playing all of the heroine's husbands and lovers...

    ; musical
    Musical theatre
    Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

    ; 1998 revival
  • Funny Girl; musical; a 2002 one-night concert staging for The Actors' Fund
  • Talk Radio
    Talk Radio (play)
    Talk Radio is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play written by Eric Bogosian, based on a concept by Bogosian and Tad Savinar. It centers around Barry Champlain, a Cleveland-area shock jock, on the eve of his radio show's national syndication....

    ; play; 2007 original cast


Off Broadway

Pedi has appeared in several Off-Broadway-theatre productions in New York City including:
  • Forbidden Broadway
    Forbidden Broadway
    Forbidden Broadway is an Off-Broadway satirical revue conceived, written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini. The original version of the revue opened on January 15, 1982 at Palsson's Supper Club in New York City and ran for 2,332 performances. Alessandrini has rewritten the show over a dozen...


Television work

She appeared as Karen Baccalieri in two episodes (2002) of the television series
Television program
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 The Sopranos
The Sopranos
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.

Other work

As a cabaret performer she has traveled with her show Great Dames, for which she won the 2008 Nightlife Award in Manhattan..

Pedi is also a disc jockey
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 and radio host
Radio personality
A radio personality is a person with an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses various genres of music, hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from listeners, or someone whose primary responsibility is to give news, weather,...

 for The Broadway Breakfast with Christine Pedi and Dueling Divas (with co-host Seth Rudetsky
Seth Rudetsky
Seth Rudetsky is an American musician, actor, writer, and radio host. He currently is the host of "Seth's Big Fat Broadway" on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's...

), radio show
Radio programming
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s on the On Broadway channel on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio.

Theatre awards nominations

She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award
Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Awards, which are given annually in a number of categories, are the only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway compete against each other in the same category...

 and an Ovation Award
Ovation Awards
The Ovation Awards are a Southern California award for excellence in theatre, established in 1989. They are given out by the Los Angeles Stage Alliance and are the only peer-judged theatre awards in Los Angeles. They have been called the "...highest-profile contest for local theatre..." by the Los...

 for her work in Forbidden Hollywood.

External links

  • christinepedi.com, official website
  • Cohen, Robin (March 20, 2009). Babes, Broads, and Broadway. Tonight ("your entertainment guide from Independent News and Media"). Independent Online (South Africa)
    Independent Online (South Africa)
    Independent Online, or IOL is a news and information website based in South Africa. It is owned by the Independent News & Media organisation, which is the largest publisher of print material in South Africa....

    , a division of Independent News & Media
    Independent News & Media
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    . Accessed January 21, 2010.
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