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Bill Daugherty is originally from St. Louis where he attended the Conservatory at Webster University as well as Southwest Missouri State University from which he holds a BFA in Acting. He has appeared in theaters, clubs and concert halls around the world including Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Paper Mill Playhouse, Die Kleine Komedie (Amsterdam), The Green Room (London), The Gardenia Room (LA), The Briar Street and The Halstead theaters (Chicago) and The St. Louis Repertory Theater.
Bill was Nicely Nicely Johnson in the first European tour of Guys and Dolls. His regional credits include: Side by Side by Sondheim (Man); Evita (Magaldi); My Fair Lady (Freddy); The Little Foxes (Leo). His New York credits include a season with The Light Opera of Manhattan at the Cherry Lane Theater and he is a perennial at Broadway’s Town Hall in the Broadway By The Year and Broadway Unplugged concert series.
Early in his career he had the honor of working under the direction of George Abbott in Damn Yankees at Paper Mill Playhouse where also appeared in Candide, Naughty Marietta and Annie Get Your Gun. He has headlined in some of New York's premier clubs including The Oak Room at the Algonquin, The Russian Tea Room and Sardi's. Bill was a 12 year veteran of the original 92nd St Y's Lyrics and Lyricists series under the direction of Maurice Levine.
Formerly of the critically acclaimed musical comedy team "Daugherty & Field," their Obie nominated two-man show ran Off-Broadway at the Van Dam Street Theater for 8 months. It was during this 8 year partnership that Daugherty first began his work as a lyricist and director.
Bill is the recipient of 4 MAC awards and 3 of Backstage Magazine's Bistro Awards (including best male vocalist in 1995). Mr. Daugherty is the creative director for Thoroughbred Productions in New York and producer for their label. His award winning solo album - Look To The Rainbow - is available on Thoroughbred Records. He also produced, for that label, Broadway darling Nancy Anderson’s first solo CD, Ten Cents A Dance. His newest album - Souvenirs - was released this summer on which Doyle Newmyer acts as musical director.
He is celebrating his 14th year as a faculty member at CAP21 musical theater conservatory where he teaches Vocal Technique, Vocal Performance, Audition Repertoire, Audition Technique and Private Voice. He also maintains a private studio in his home in Brooklyn and holds master classes in performance around the country. Some of his former students include: Matthew Morrison, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Bell, Natalie Cortez, Krista Rodriguez, Jason Tam and Michael Longoria. He was a pioneer in the Camp Broadway and Stages For Learning programs and was the co-founder of Curtain Up! – an educational theater workshop series.
Bill is a playwright and a respected music archivist with a collection of over 40,000 records and 25,000 CD’s. He has done consultant work over the years for record labels such as Verve, Sony/Columbia and MCA/Decca.
Daugherty has conceived and directed a number of successful revues including the runaway off-Broadway hit “When The Lights Go On Again” – a new 1940’s musical – which ran for 2 years. It won the Backstage Bistro Award for Outstanding Musical Revue in 2008. His subsequent production, “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? – Songs and Stories from the Great Depression” opened in the fall of 2009 to critical acclaim. Both Original Cast recordings are available through Thoroughbred Records.
“On The Record – A Tribute To The Great Vocal Groups of the 20th Century” played Off-Broadway in the fall of 2013. It was a multimedia salute to groups such as The Andrews Sisters, The Four Freshman and Manhattan Transfer. The double CD cast album has garnered great reviews.
His original musical, “Double Trouble” was selected by Disney and Stephen Schwartz to participate in an ASCAP workshop in the summer of 2008 and he is currently in the developmental stage of a new book musical called “Island Of Hope”.

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