About the artist
Ellen Greene is an American stage and screen actress renowned above all for creating and repeatedly portraying Audrey, the meek flower-shop assistant in «Little Shop of Horrors», across its original Off-Broadway run, the West End production, and the 1986 film adaptation. Her distinctive, breathy soprano and comic-pathos delivery on «Somewhere That's Green» became inseparable from the character and the show itself.
Beyond «Little Shop», Greene has built a career rooted in musical theater and cabaret, bringing her theatrical vocal style to interpretations of songs from the Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht songbook, including «Pirate Jenny», «Solomon Song», and the «Ballad of Immoral Earnings» — material that suits her flair for dramatic, character-driven vocal performance steeped in the Weimar-era tradition of theatrical song.
Her recordings, including «Sominex/Suppertime II» and interpretations like «Morning Has Broken», reflect an artist whose musical identity is inseparable from her acting craft: a performer who treats songs as scenes, using vibrato, breath, and phrasing to convey character rather than pursuing a conventional pop-vocalist career.