Steffi D

Steffi DiDomenicantonio, nicknamed Steffi D, is a singer from Orleans, Ontario, and the fifth-place finalist in the 2006 season of Canadian Idol. A former student at Ecole secondaire publique De La Salle, she has been a stage performer at several Ottawa-area theatrical venues since the age of four. On Canadian Idol, she was known for the trademark bow in her hair and for having a flair for the music of the 1920s. Steffi D left the Kiwanis Music Festival just a few years ago, after performing in the Festival since the age of 8. She was recently selected to play the role Ilse in the first national tour of the smash Broadway musical Spring Awakening. The edgy production focuses on a group of sexually oppressed teenagers in 19th-century Germany. Steffi D plays Ilse, whom she describes as “an old soul in a young girl’s body.” “When I am on stage, and I quote from one of Anton Chekhov’s great plays: ‘I take pleasure in my performance. I delight in it. I am in a state of intoxication when I’m up there.’ I wouldn’t exchange that feeling for anything else in the world.”