Heather E. Cunningham has performed in New York City for New York Theatre Workshop, Young Mindz Productions, Confluence Theatre Company, The Vital Theatre, and New York Play Development, among others. She has lent her voice to Johnny Palmetto, Net Detective and Storywaveand her "image" to commercials and Saturday Night Live. In addition to regional theatre and national tours, her residency at the historic Hedgerow Theatre included appearances in over a dozen productions, including The Good Woman of Setzuan, Silence, Cole/Noel – “Let’s Fall in Love,” Camino Real, Cat Among the Pigeons, and Macbeth. Other favorite credits: Unveiling, Comedy 101, Women Who Dare, Evita, and Four Dogs and a Bone. Heather has most recently begun performing in cabaret venues around the city, and her solo debut Boy Wanted was performed at Don't Tell Mama in New York City in 2003.
Heather was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, Jack, is a former set designer and her mother, Rebecca, is a professor of costume design and construction at Brooklyn College, as well as the author of the costume text The Magic Garment, Principles of Costume Design. Always knowing she wanted to be in the theatre, Heather won many performance scholarships to both the Berkeley Carroll School where she went to 7th through 12th grades, and Denison University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance. Heather's first public performance was singing "Away in a Manger" for Christmas Services when she was so young she barely remembers it.
