Sara Bareilles is an award-winning singer, songwriter, actor, producer, activist and New York Times best-selling author whose accolades include two Grammy Awards, three Tony Award nominations and three Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

As a recording artist and songwriter, she has sold more than three million albums and 15 million singles in the U.S., and her songs have been streamed more than 3.5 billion times worldwide.

On Broadway, she composed music and lyrics for “Waitress,” stepping into the lead role both on Broadway and in the West End. Other musical theater credits include her Tony-nominated performance as the baker’s wife in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods,” a song on the Tony Award-nominated score for “SpongeBob SquarePants” and an Emmy Award-nominated appearance as Mary Magdalene in NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar Live.” She plays Dawn Solano on the Emmy-nominated musical comedy series “Girls5eva,” the third season of which is streaming now on Netflix, and is currently at work on a musical theater adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s best-selling novel “The Interestings,” alongside author Sarah Ruhl.