A lot of teenagers have parents that are maybe a little too real with them.
— Jennifer Damiano
Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.
I legit can not parallel park. This is no joke!
I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more.
When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.
Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah.
I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up being too aware of that many shows or that many actors in shows. I was always obsessed with Judy Garland, though.
I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.
I'm really excited about the revolution that is young people actually playing young people on Broadway.
In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.
I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.
I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!
I can now put 'experienced aerialist' on my resume.
I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.
You have to learn how to take care of yourself.
Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.
I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains.
I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.
I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.
'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'
I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well.
I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!
I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.
I think it's really easy to just get caught up in what everyone else is doing, so I think the most important thing to remember is to be really strong in your own shoes. That is the main thing for me. The one thing that kind of gets in my way sometimes is when I'm a little too aware of everybody else.
I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.
There's no better feeling than being on a Broadway stage for me.
I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.
