 In August 2015, Bareilles met actor Joe Tippett during the out-of-town tryout for "Waitress" at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and they later began a relationship.The couple made their first public/red carpet appearance at the 2017 Tony Awards.Bareilles considers herself "definitely sort of a feminist," saying, "I don't think that being a feminist has anything to do with hating anything.