Debut full length album My Lovely Enemy to be released with ECR Music Group early 2024.

Listen to the new single, “Reckless”.

Called “electrifying” by The Huffington Post and “phenomenal” by The New York Times, Grace McLean is a multi-hyphenate actress-singer-writer-teacher. In addition to performing on Broadway (Bad Cinderella; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812) and Off (New Group, MCC, LCT3, Public, La MaMa, Vineyard, among others), Grace also makes time for her acclaimed original music. With an artistry that combines Regina Spektor's quirkiness, Nellie McKay's jazz sensibilities, Fiona Apple's cutting introspection, Kimbra's sass and Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs' rhythm, McLean adds up to one beautiful weirdo. Manhattan User's Guide writes, "this pop and jazz singer writes seriously infectious melodies with seriously antic lyrics. Her voice can raise the roof, or she can slide off a note and break your heart,” and Stephen Holden of the New York Times says “Ms. McLean’s voice [is] a flexible instrument with unexpected reserves of power...Behind her playful adventurousness lies a well of passion.”

Grace received a 2021 Jonathan Larson Grant and is a Broadway Women’s Fund 2021 Woman to Watch. She is a Writer In Residence at Lincoln Center Theater where her first original musical IN THE GREEN was commissioned and produced, received a 2020 Richard Rodgers Award, and earned her a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical.  Grace McLean & Them Apples headlined the Lincoln Center American Songbook in both 2015 and 2016, and Grace is the 2017 recipient of the Hunt Family Emerging Artist Award through Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.  The band toured Pakistan with the US State Department in 2015 and Grace traveled to Russia again with the State Department in 2018. She was a headlining performer and vocal instructor at the SingStrong a capella festivals in DC and Chicago in 2014 and again in New York in 2020 and she continues to teach voice privately in New York.  

Grace has taught master classes at NYU, The New School, Northwestern, UNCC, Orange County School of the Arts, New York Youth Symphony, among others. In New York, you can find her band at Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, Rockwood Music Hall, Ars Nova (where she developed the interactive concert experience Grace McLean: Lives in Concert), and the Museum of the American Indian, where they performed as part of a panel discussion on storytelling for The Economist’s 2012 Ideas Summit. As a solo performer Grace has been seen at Lincoln Center, New York City Center, The McKittrick, BAM, the ACE Hotel (where she collaborates with The Dance Cartel’s show OnTheFloor) and numerous other venues both uptown and downtown. She is also a frequent contributor to Obie winning investagative theater company The Civilians’ cabaret series “Let Me Ascertain You.”

McLean has developed work at SPACE on Ryder Farm, The Orchard Project, Johnny Mercer Writer’s Colony at Goodspeed, The PiTCH, CAP21, The Civilians R&D Group, and MacDowell. The original cast recording for IN THE GREEN is available on Ghostlight Records. Grace released her newest EP in May 2015, featuring the single, and her first feature video, “Natural Disaster".  The band will release a new full length album soon. Make Me Breakfast, the 2012 EP from Grace McLean & Them Apples, is also available.