Beth Callen

Biography

Beth Callen is a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, singer, songwriter, and educator based in NYC. Beth plays guitar, banjo and mandolin in the musical Suffs on Broadway. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Purchase College (SUNY) where she studied songwriting, new media and web design.

Past credits include the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-Winning musical A Strange Loop on Broadway (Guitar 1/Banjo), A Strange Loop (Keys2/Guitar) in Washington D.C., A Strange Loop (Keys2/Guitar/Banjo) Off-Broadway, and Head Over Heels (Guitar 2) on Broadway. She was also a sub for the Broadway productions of Six (Guitar), Aladdin (Guitar and Banjo), Jagged Little Pill (Guitar 2) and Girl From the North Country (Guitar).

Beth released several albums with her band The Callen Sisters in the early 2000s and was signed to Cordless Recordings (Warner). In addition to her work in Broadway pits, she works as a side musician playing guitar and singing with bands and artists in NYC including indie pop artist Sidney Bird, Grammy-award winning children’s artist Tim Kubart, the all-female Guns N' Roses tribute band Guns N’ Hoses, the alt-rock group The New Tarot and others.

Her recording credits include projects with The Callen Sisters, The New Tarot, cast albums for A Strange Loop, (the Grammy-nominated Broadway cast recording and the Off-Broadway cast recording) and for We Are The Tigers (Original Off-Broadway Cast Album).