About Georgia
Georgia Thomas is a 21-year-old Atlanta-based soprano performing in opera, operetta, and musical theatre. In August of 2025, she will begin her senior year of undergraduate voice studies at Furman University with her teacher, Dr. Grant Knox.
This summer, Georgia is performing with the Seagle Festival as an Emerging Artist for the second time, singing the roles of Erma Latour in Anything Goes and Frasquita (cover) in Carmen, her first named role in a foreign-laguage opera. She will also be performing the role of Valeria in the second-ever staging of Mayo Buckner (a life interrupted), during which she will be working closely with the composer of the opera, Tom Cipullo. Just weeks prior to departing for Schroon Lake, she made her role debut as Abigail Williams in The Crucible (Ward) with Harrower Summer Opera, under the direction of Dr. Jen Stephenson.
During her junior year of college, Georgia performed the role of Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief , as well as singing in the chorus of Amahl and the Night Visitors, both with Sarah Reese Lyric Theater. She also sang the title role of Lakmé in the Flower Duet for the Furman University Music Opera Scenes program. She has been a member of the Furman Singers, Furman University’s flagship coed choir, for all 3 years of her undergraduate experience so far, serving as Public Relations Officer for two of those years. She also qualified as a finalist for the Schmidt Undergraduate Vocal Competition.
Other performance experience includes: “Come Unto Him” soloist in Handel’s Messiah (Furman University Music), Fantine in Les Misérables (CYT Atlanta), Kate in The Pirates of Penzance (Sarah Reese Lyric Theater), Lila / Sara in the New York and Northeast premiere of Cold Mountain (Higdon, Seagle Festival), and Mom / Somi in the New York premiere of Evan Mack’s children’s opera Dragon’s Breath (Seagle Festival). Georgia also performed the title role of Anastasia, for which she won the Georgia High School Musical Theatre Award (GHSMTA) for Best Leading Actress, and went on to compete in the National High School Musical Theatre “Jimmy” Awards in the same category.
Georgia has experience not only onstage, but behind the scenes as well - she loves doing special effects makeup for the theatre, and she made her directorial debut in 2023 with Little Shop of Horrors with Furman University’s student theatre group, the Pauper Players. Aside from the arts, she loves to play video games, go to renaissance faires, and spend time with her loved ones (including her two rescue dogs, Poppy and Marshall).