Lyric soprano Andrea Browne grew up among chickens, which accounts for her love for small neurotic animals. A native of Orange County, CA, she was one of seven children, situated modestly in the middle. Number 5 to be exact. Not the first, not the baby by any stretch of the imagination. Luckily, she was born with what we call an inherent diva personality as well as a beautiful voice that catapulted her to the top of her high school theatre department and brought her to the attention of her first voice teacher Robin Follman. Robin took Andrea’s voice to new heights (literally… her high notes are very free-sounding). Upon high school graduation, Andrea was accepted into the illustrious Indiana University School of Music where she continued her studies under the tutelage of Carlos Montané and Alice Hopper. While studying at Indiana Andrea decided to engage in what we call “degree surfing the Humanities Department”- an activity most commonly associated with Undergraduate education… Should she stick with music? Should she become a Spanish major? She did. Subsequently she went to Spain, decided to become a folk singer and officially dropped her vegetarian façade. Post-graduation trauma led her back to her roots in the OC for a brief but enriching year, where she adopted her loyal beast, Cocoa the Dog: a beagle-chihuahua mix who truly believes that no one else purposefully exists in the world but Andrea.

Upon further self-contemplation, Andrea landed herself in New York City where she completed her Masters degree in Music at The Manhattan School of Music, and currently resides. Having ventured successfully in the musical theatre industry as a singer (she, most famously "went down with the ship” as Kate in Titanic on the 2005 National Tour of the Broadway production), she has most rationally decided to follow her great passion for pastry. She is a cake decorator for Ron Ben-israel and a semi-regular but greatly valued member of the Opera on Tap troupe. Come see her when she’s not too exhausted having worked a twelve-hour day in the cake kitchen! She rocks!