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Yvette Cason\xa0is an American television, theatre, and film actress, singer, and a former\xa0Miss Black America\xa0from\xa0Washington, D.C.\xa0She starred in DREAMGIRLS on Broadway\u2026 and in 2006 played May, the mother of Deena Jones, portrayed by\xa0Beyonc\xe9 Knowles\xa0in the\xa0feature film version of\xa0Dreamgirls.
\xa0Cason returned to Broadway in PLAY ON, for which she won an Ovation Award for Supporting Actress. Most recently she performed to rave reviews in the musical SHOUT SISTER SHOUT, The Rosetta Tharpe Story, at the Pasadena Playhouse.
\xa0Her early musical training was at The Sewell Music Conservatory in Washington, followed by her studies at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Yvette has toured and sang with some of the industries most elite artists\u2026 such as Whitney Houston,\xa0Stevie Wonder, David Foster, Najee, and Kenny \u201cBabyface\u201d Edmonds.

This past year Yvette had the pleasure of recording her Christmas EP \u201cThe Spirit of Christmas\u201d, produced by Sylvia MacCalla.
She is currently working on bringing the music and life story of the iconic\xa0Ella Fitzgerald\xa0back to the stage in 2018.
\xa0Yvette just learned that she is a nominee for a 2017 LOS ANGELES OVATION AWARD as Featured Actress in a Musical in \u201cSHOUT SISTER SHOUT\u201d. \xa0She is also a nominee for the 2017 NAACP Theatre Award for the play BARBECUE, presented at the Geffen Theatre.
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