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About the Actor

Classically trained, Candace Del Rio has made her home on the stage working with  major professional theaters across several U.S. states, playing a wide range of characters from the bashful Annelle in Steel Magnolias to the vivacious stripper, Pippi from The Great American Trailer Park Musical.   

As a professional singer and actor living in Los Angeles, CA, Candace specializes is musical theatre but is skilled film and television acting as well as studio singing and live music performance in styles such as pop, rock, country, and R&B.

Candace is also certified Hatha Yoga instructor, loves physical fitness and being outdoors with her two rescue dogs, and spends her free time writing screenplays and short stories or reading whatever she can get her hands on.

Height: 5' 4"

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Blonde

Vocals: C3-C6​

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Stage

Olive Branch Theatricals | Five Women Wearing the Same Dress | 2025

Supporting Actor​ - Mindy

Carrollwood Cultural | Steel Magnolias | 2025

Lead Actor​ - Annelle

Breakroom Entertainment  | The Andrews Brothers | 2024

Lead Actor - Peggy Jones

Powerstories | Alabama Story | 2023

Lead Actor - Lilly Whitfield

Stageworks Theatre | The Great American Trailer Park Musical | 2023

Lead Actor - Pippi

Encore! | Alice in Wonderland | 2015

Lead Actor - Alice

Northeastern State Univ. | Lend Me A Tenor | 2013

Supporting Actor - Diana

Tulsa Performing Arts | The Drowsy Chaperone| 2011

Lead Actor - Janet van de Graff

Tulsa Performing Arts | The Fantasticks | 2011

Lead Actor - Luisa

Film

University of Southern California | The Artist vs. The Critic | Student Film | 2025

Lead Actor - Jo

Underestimated Films Ltd. | Sorrows By Moonlight | Short Film | 2022

Lead Actor - Woman/Werewolf

Underestimated Films Ltd. | Escort | Short Film | 2021

Lead Actor - Devon/Nicole

Education & Training

Northeastern State University

BFA - Theatre Studies

Hillsborough Comm. College

A.A. Communications - Creative Writing Focus

Theatrical Training

Meisner Technique | Dr. Robyn Pursely

Vocal Training

Voice - Mezzo Soprano Technique | Dr. Robert Daniels

Acknowledgments

BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards - Nominated

Best Supporting Actor in a Play - Annelle in Steel Magnolias | 2025

The Monti Awards - Nominated

Lead Actress in a Musical - Peggy Jones in The Andrews Brothers | 2024

Theatre Tampa - Nominated

Featured Female Actress in a Musical - Pippi in The Great Amer. Trailer Park Musical | 2023

Special Skills

Singing, acting, dance, sight reading, band frontman & emcee, basic guitar, long boarding, roller skating, yoga (instructor certified), set construction, power tools, basic pole dancing, headstand, country western accent, British accent.

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