Cynthia Collins received her BFA in Theatre from Ohio University. She studied at the N.J. School of Ballet with Jay Norman (original Broadway cast and Motion Picture cast member of West Side Story).

A proud member of Actors Equity Association since 1991, her Off-Broadway credits include: Fifty Million Frenchmen, Face The Music, Jubilee, That’s The Ticket with Tony Award winner George S. Irving (Musicals Tonight Series); Valentino,The Musical at the Judith Anderson Theatre; Lone Star Cafe at The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre and Gigi at Equity Library Theatre directed by Gerard Alessandrini, creator of the famed Forbidden Broadway. Cindy has toured Nationally in Singin’ In The Rain and internationally in My Fair Lady as well as multiple Cruise Line appearances. Regionally her credits include: Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show (Zach & Zack Productions); Patty in Be Here Now (Summit Performance); Kate in Surviving Grace (Clowes Hall) with Dianne Rehm , Alison in Fun Home (Phoenix Theatre); Anybodys in West Side Story (St. Louis MUNY, Theatrefest, The Strand); Agnes in On The Twentieth Century (Goodspeed Opera House);Millie in Good News, Flossie in On The Town, and Perkins in Annie, (North Shore Music Theatre); Kristine in A Chorus Line and Edith in The Pirates Of Penzance (Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theatre); Miss Hannigan in Annie (Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre); Mrs. Hopkins in My Fair Lady (Westchester Broadway Theatre); Hymen in As You Like It (N.J. Shakespeare); Airie in The Robber Bridegroom (Sharon Stage) Nellie Bly, A New Musical with Tony award winner Spiro Malas (John Harms Theatre) and the Atlanta premieres of: The Taffetas, A Taffeta Christmas, A Grand Night For Singing, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, The Sisters of Swing;the Story of the Andrews Sisters and MY WAY: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, (Georgia Ensemble Theatre); Donna in The Taffetas (Pennsylvania Center Stage- Inaugural Season); Charity in Sweet Charity (Wagon Wheel Theatre); Featured Dancer in The Gay Games (Yankee Stadium).

Her television/film credits include: Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Ed, Sex And The City, OZ, Die Hard III, Sabrina, Maid in Manhatten, The Thomas Crown Affair, Death to Smoochy, When I Grow Up, Hide & Seek, Zoolander, Coyote Ugly, Shaft, A Couch in New York, Suck It Up Buttercup, FUBAR, Noble Vision… Commercial work includes: K-Mart, Mr. Quick, Prilosec, Ohio Lottery, Silver Screen TV, George Washington National Bank, Riverview Health. Pixel 8…. She has had the pleasure of working with such artists as Ben Vereen, Sandy Duncan, Claude Aikins, Comden & Green, Cy Coleman, Avery Schrieber, Joel Grey, Cyndi Lauper, Fred Waring and his famous Pennsylvanians, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Jerry Mitchell, Sergio Trujillo, Peggy Hickey, Diane Rehm, Billy Stritch, Patricia Wilson, Richard Riehle… Cindy’s Cabaret performances have been seen at The Horn of Plenty and Bluesland in NYC and at Feinstein’s at The Hotel Carmichael.

She was the Assistant Director /Choreographer to Director Thomas Mills at AMDA (American Music and Dramatic Academy) As Co-Founder Emeritus of Actors Theatre of Indiana, she has performed in and or choreographed My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, Cole: The Words & Music of Cole Porter, And The World Goes ‘Round, Sisters of Swing:The Story of the Andrews Sisters, The Taffetas, Perfect Wedding, Forbidden Broadway, A Year with Frog & Toad, Nunsense, A Grand Night for Singing, CHICAGO, The Musical of Musicals, the Musical,
Always Patsy Cline, My Fair Lady, Xanadu, The Fantasticks, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, Ruthless!, It’s A Wonderful Life, Working, Mr. Confidential.

A native of Livingston, N.J. and longtime resident of New York City, Cindy currently resides in Carmel, IN.