Magda Kress

Biography

Magda Kress is a queer NYC-based upright and electric bassist, and can frequently be found playing one or two basses all over the city in musicals, concerts, cabarets, and recording sessions. She especially loves collaborating with theatre-makers and performing new works. Past favorites include Pretty Woman (1st national tour), Folk Wandering (Pipeline Theatre Company), Dead Outlaw (sub, Audible Theater), The Tattooed Lady (New Dramatists), and Conversion (soundtrack, Chronicle Cinema). Magda has shared the stage with Adam Pascal, Liz Calloway, Bonnie Milligan, Annie Golden, Richard Kind, Lauren Patten, Nancy Opel, Ellen Winter, and many others. She is a frequent hire for concerts at venues such as 54 Below, Green Room 42, Joe's Pub, and The Cutting Room.