Kissy Simmons

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Simmons performing "Shadowland" at Broadway on Broadway, September 10th 2006.
Simmons performing "Shadowland" at Broadway on Broadway, September 10th 2006.

Kissy Simmons is an American actor currently portraying Nala in the Broadway production of The Lion King. Kissy, a native Floridian, attended the University of South Florida in Tampa on a track and field scholarship. She received a BA in speech communications before going on to a successful modeling and theatre career in the Tampa Bay area. Professional credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator), Little Shop of Horrors (Ronnette) and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.

Kissy is short for Kissimmee, the Floridian city near Orlando only about 80 miles from Floral City, Florida where she was born.