Cady Huffman – Adjunct Instructor (Director)

Cady Huffman (Adjunct Instructor) started studying acting at the age of 6, ballet at 7 and classical voice at 9 and has never stopped studying. She sent herself to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and continues to view her life as a vibrant work in progress.

Cady is perhaps best known for her Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award winning performance as “Ulla” in The Producers on Broadway opposite Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. This led to her unforgettable recurring role on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm where she almost became Larry David’s 10th anniversary present. This success also brought her to the Food Network’s kitchen stadium where she judged for 10 consecutive seasons on Iron Chef America.

Cady’s other Broadway credits are her Tony-nominated performance as Ziegfeld’s Favorite in The Will Rogers Follies, her Outer Critics Circle nominated performance in The Nance, the original production of La Cage Aux Folles, Chicago, Steel Pier Dame Edna: The Royal Tour, and Bob Fosse’s last original musical Big Deal.

She has had several guest starring appearances on television, including recurring roles on The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Younger, Madam Secretary, Master of None, Difficult People, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: CI, Law & Order: Trial By Jury, Frasier and Mad About You. Daytime audiences know her as the 2nd Dr. Paige Miller on One Life To Live and Calista Lockhart on Days Of Our Lives.

Cady’s film credits include The Sixth Reel, The Company Men, Dare, The Nanny Diaries, Romance and Cigarettes, and Hero.

Cady co-created and stars in the 12-time 2022 Indie Series Award nominated digital series CADY DID which took home 5 trophies including 2 for Cady for producing and acting. She has been nominated for 2 Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on the digital series After Forever, for which she won the 2018 IAWT Award and won an Indie Series Award for “Best Guest Actress In A Comedy” for her work on He’s With Me.

Cady is also a busy director and musician. Most recently she directed Veanne Cox in The First Anti-Vaxxers, an original digital theater piece for TRUSpeak. Other favorite directing jobs include the original musical Electric Island, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time at Weathervane Theater, the Jerry Herman tribute for the well-known series Lyrics and Lyricists at 92Y, The Life and Death of Kenyon Phillips at Webster Hall, and the original musical City of Lights at the Colony Theater in Manhattan.

She is also half of the popular Jazz duo Cady & Mary Ann, described by BroadwayWorld as “Sometimes with nothing more than a bass and a voice, Huffman and McSweeney created fully theatrical monologues that cut to the heart of the human experience.”

Cady is a proud union member of 39 years. @CadyHuffman on FB Instagram and Twitter. CadyDid.tv

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