Audrey Hobert

For most of her life, Audrey Hobert was the mastermind behind the scenes. She co-directed her brother Malcolm Todd’s music video “Concrete,” co-wrote her best friend and ex-roommate Gracie Abrams’ chart-topping sophomore record The Secret of Us, and pitched jokes in the writers’ room for Nickelodeon’s The Really Loud House. Now, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter is finally taking center stage with her early-2000s-romcom-inspired debut album Who’s the Clown, a witty and relentlessly catchy confection of pop hits. Suffice it to say, she’s come a long way since being in the ensemble of her California high school’s productions of Evita and In the Heights.