Born in Hollywood to a musically-inclined family – including second cousin Richard Crooks who was a leading Metropolitan Opera tenor in the 1940s, and father Ron Long who partnered with Stephen Stills and Peter Tork as the "funky folk-rock and comedy" trio Buffalo Fish – Norah Long has built upon her family's legacy, establishing a vibrant performing career of her own spanning music, theater, and film.
After moving to Minneapolis from Columbia, Missouri, where she was raised, Long’s career began when she was hired still in college as the youngest-ever member of The Dale Warland Singers. She has since performed over 60 leading roles in regional theaters across the country. Long has established ongoing working relationships with the Guthrie Theater, Nautilus Music-Theater, History Theatre, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, and Skylark Opera for whom she has performed 16 roles and recorded a CD of Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy duets. She also has a thriving non-musical theater career, in classical work from Strindberg to Shakespeare and contemporary work from Goetz to Gilman.
A quick study who thrives on artistic challenges, Long has collaborated on a number of premieres, working alongside Bobby McFerrin, Jeffrey Hatcher, John DeLancie, Chan Poling, Kira Obolensky, Stephen Paulus, Rachel Sheinkin, Rachel Portman, Marsha Norman, and many others in the developmental process. She has premiered 8 fully-produced musicals at the Guthrie Theater, History Theatre, and Nautilus Music-Theater, and she recorded and premiered composer Mark Warhol’s Crazy Rabbit Songs for which she memorized seventy pages of random-note music. Long has toured Japan and Germany as a concert soloist and, in the US, was featured vocalist on pianist Lorie Line’s 2008 holiday tour and CD. She recently produced her first solo CD.
Resident soloist at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church, a 5,000-member congregation in Plymouth, MN, Long is also an ongoing Teaching Artist for Upstream Arts, an arts-based education program for people with disabilities. She is featured in the short film "The Switch Key" due for a 2013 premiere and is a recurring guest performer for the Girl Scouts as figurehead Juliette Gordon Low. Long has been honored in Minneapolis Star-Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer Press best-of lists multiple times, and she has been profiled in numerous feature articles for newspaper and magazine throughout the country. [...upcoming events]
After moving to Minneapolis from Columbia, Missouri, where she was raised, Long’s career began when she was hired still in college as the youngest-ever member of The Dale Warland Singers. She has since performed over 60 leading roles in regional theaters across the country. Long has established ongoing working relationships with the Guthrie Theater, Nautilus Music-Theater, History Theatre, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, and Skylark Opera for whom she has performed 16 roles and recorded a CD of Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy duets. She also has a thriving non-musical theater career, in classical work from Strindberg to Shakespeare and contemporary work from Goetz to Gilman.
A quick study who thrives on artistic challenges, Long has collaborated on a number of premieres, working alongside Bobby McFerrin, Jeffrey Hatcher, John DeLancie, Chan Poling, Kira Obolensky, Stephen Paulus, Rachel Sheinkin, Rachel Portman, Marsha Norman, and many others in the developmental process. She has premiered 8 fully-produced musicals at the Guthrie Theater, History Theatre, and Nautilus Music-Theater, and she recorded and premiered composer Mark Warhol’s Crazy Rabbit Songs for which she memorized seventy pages of random-note music. Long has toured Japan and Germany as a concert soloist and, in the US, was featured vocalist on pianist Lorie Line’s 2008 holiday tour and CD. She recently produced her first solo CD.
Resident soloist at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church, a 5,000-member congregation in Plymouth, MN, Long is also an ongoing Teaching Artist for Upstream Arts, an arts-based education program for people with disabilities. She is featured in the short film "The Switch Key" due for a 2013 premiere and is a recurring guest performer for the Girl Scouts as figurehead Juliette Gordon Low. Long has been honored in Minneapolis Star-Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer Press best-of lists multiple times, and she has been profiled in numerous feature articles for newspaper and magazine throughout the country. [...upcoming events]