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Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rajiv Joseph explores his new play Dakar 2000 at Manhattan Theater Club running through March 23rd. Rajiv gives us the backstory on working with Robin Williams to bring Bengal Tiger at the Bagdahd Zoo to Broadway. Rajiv talks about collaborating with esteemed Directors Moisés Kaufman on Bengal Tiger and Kenny Leon on critically acclaimed King James about Rajiv’s hometown of Cleveland and the LeBron James lead Cavaliers.
Also in this episode - Tyne Daly Tony win for Gypsy. Review of Avalona - A Musical Legend
Rajiv Joseph (Broadway: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; Off-Broadway: King James at MTC) and Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of his genre-bending new play Dakar 2000.The production begins performances on February 4, 2025; opening night is February 27, 2025.
Since his stage debut nearly 20 years ago, Rajiv’s work has consistently defied traditional classification. Known for weaving together elements of fantasy, surrealism, history, and thriller, Joseph’s off-kilter plays have earned him a Pulitzer Prize nomination (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), two Obie Awards (Describe the Night, Guards at the Taj), a Lortel Award, and recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts for Outstanding New American Play. A prolific writer for the screen as well as the stage, Joseph’s film and television credits include “Welcome to Chippendales” (Hulu), “Little America” (Apple TV+), “Dear Edward” (Apple TV+), and the feature film Draft Day (starring Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner).
Loosely inspired by Rajiv’s time in the Peace Corps in Senegal on the brink of Y2K,, Dakar 2000 is a serpentine amalgam of espionage, memory play, and romance. The play follows the relationship between Boubs (Abubakr Ali), a young Peace Corps volunteer, and Dina (Mia Barron), an enigmatic State Department operative, as they negotiate what could be the start of a computer-based apocalypse. A pressure-cooker of a two-hander, the boundary between fact and fiction all but disappears as Dina draws Boubs deeper and deeper into the darker side of public service.
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Behind the Awards welcomes Kevin Csolak to chat about his scene stealing role as Tulsa in Gypsy. Kevin also shares his experience working with Stephen Spielberg in latest West Side Story film. Listen to hear how the Outsiders manifested Gypsy, and how he leaped into the first day of Mean Girls Rehearsal hours after performing with Justin Timberlake in the Super Bowl.
Also in this episode - Cate Blanchett Best Actress win for Blue Jasmine. Our best moments from the 2025 Oscars including Mikey Madison’s win over Demi Moore, Paul Tazewell’s historic win for Wicked and Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo’s Wicked opening number.
Kevin's artistic journey began in his mother's New Jersey dance studio, leading him to significant roles on Broadway, in major films like Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, and on acclaimed television series such as HBO's Boardwalk Empire. His diverse experiences and dedication to his craft make him a compelling subject for features that explore the intersection of talent, perseverance, and success in the performing arts.
Kevin Csolak starred as Diesel in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. He originated the role of A-Rab in Ivo van Hove’s West Side Story on Broadway, performed in original Broadway casts of Mean Girls and How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Recently starred in the Tony Award-winning The Outsiders. World Premieres: Mean Girls, The Prom, PAC’s Watch Night (The Wolf), Cirque du Soleil’s Wintuk (Jamie). Screen credits include Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order, NCIS, Jessica Jones, The Mick, along with a memorable season-long arc on TNT’s Animal Kingdom as Young Pope. Other notable work: Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl, Hayley Kiyoko, and DojaCat.
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Behind the Awards is joined by Jiffy Pop Culture’s Frank Liotti and our in house expert Matt Stashin to dish all things Oscar’s. The hottest races include Conclave vs Anora, Demi Moore vs Cynthia Erivo, Timothée Chalamet vs Adrian Brody and much more!
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Marjan Neshat joins Behind the Awards to deep dive into the Pulitzer Prize winning Play at the Roundabout Theater. Marjan shares her pride and excitement of being part of a cast and creative team all making their Broadway Debut at the same time. You can also catch Marjan Guest Starring on The Night Agent now streaming on Netflix.
Also in the this episode - Olivia Coleman’s 2019 Oscar win for The Favourite. SAG Awards Winners including, Conclave, Demi Moore, Timothee Chalamet, Only Murders In the Building, and Martin Short.
Marjan Neshat recently starred in the one-woman thriller Sandra by David Cale at the Vineyard Theater. She led the cast of Sanaz Toossi’s new play Wish You Were Here at Playwrights Horizons, and also starred in Ms. Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play English at the Atlantic Theater, for which she won an Obie Award. She originated the role of “Afiya” in the Pulitzer Prize Finalist play Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury at Playwrights Horizons and Williamstown Theater Festival. Other theater includes the Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar (NYSF), and The Seagull (with Alan Cumming and Dianne Wiest). Marjan’s feature film work includes leading roles in the multi-award-winning film Rockaway as well as in the indie features Almost in Love, Cry Funny Happy and Happy For You. She has played supporting roles in many films, including Robocop, Sex and the City 2, Alfie, and Love-40. Marjan’s TV work includes a recurring role on season 2 of the upcoming hit series The Night Agent (Netflix), New Amsterdam, For Life, Bull, Elementary, Quantico, Law & Order: SVU, and Fringe among others. She is a 2022 recipient of the Sam Norkin Drama Desk Award for her portrayals in Selling Kabul and English in the same season.
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Original Rent cast member Rodney Hicks joins Behind the Awards to recount the creation of the cult phenomenon Rent and his friendship with Jonathon Larson. Fun Fact the OBC still has an active group text. Rodney discusses for the first time ever 1968: An American Love Story, a project that he has been writing for the past 5 years. Rodney shares how Susan Stroman made him a dancer, his battle with Spasmodic Dysphonia and upcoming feature film.Also in this episode - Julianne Moore 2015 Best Actress win for Still Alice. Review of Idina Menzel’s return to Broadway in Redwood.Rodney Hicks is a meditator, playwright, and TV/Film/Stage actor. Plays: 1968 an American Love Story (musical); inhale-EXHALE; Just Press Save; FLAME BROILED. or the ugly play(2019 Local Theatre Company premiere/Boulder, CO); Ms. Pearl’s. Broadway actor credits: Come From Away, The Scottsboro Boys, Jesus Christ Superstar, RENT. Film: Mighty Oak (Apple TV, Amazon), Rent: Live on Broadway, The Sleepover (Disney+) TV: Leverage, Grimm, Hope & Faith, Student Affairs (Pilot), Law & Order: CI; NYPD Blue, FOREVER (Netflix series, May 2025)Make sure to check out Eila's book, "The Tony Awards", and all her other amazing books: https://amzn.to/43WMu5Y.Connect with Eila and Bruce:Instagram @behind_the_awardsEila @eilamellBruce @cominghomewithbruceLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Behind the Awards was thrilled to participate in BroadwayCon 10 and have Producer Jack Noseworthy & Composer and Lyricist Benjamin Valez on their live panel to discuss the new musical Real Women Have Curves.
Jack Noseworthy is the co-founder of Truworthy Productions along with Tony and Olivier Award-winning Director/Choreographer Sergio Trujillo. His producing career has been bolstered by 33 years as a stage and screen actor. Jack was honored to make his Broadway debut in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, which was followed by Cats, A Chorus Line, Sweet Smell of Success, and the original Toronto company of the international hit, Come From Away.
Benjamin Velez is a composer/lyricist born and raised in Miami, FL. A winner of the Fred Ebb Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, Stephen Schwartz Award, and the Kleban Award, his original musicals include BORDERLINE, which opened the 2019 O'Neill MT Conference. Other credits include KISS MY AZTEC, written with John Leguizamo (Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage), a Public Works musical of THE TEMPEST (The Delacorte Theater), and REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES (ART, and in April, Broadway!).
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Theater has the power to challenge, connect, and inspire—and that’s exactly what Maiden Mother Crone: A Duet of Solo Plays delivers. This groundbreaking production, featuring Sugarcoated by Jen Ponton and The Longer My Mother is Dead, the More I Like Her by Deborah Unger, invites audiences to explore universal themes of identity, resilience, and transformation through two uniquely personal perspectives.
In Sugarcoated, acclaimed actor and writer Jen Ponton (AMC’s Dietland) delivers a searing, humorous exploration of the polished facade society expects from women. This performance strips away the "sugar" to reveal the raw truths of trauma, survival, and unapologetic self-discovery.
In The Longer My Mother is Dead, the More I Like Her, Deborah Unger crafts a witty and poignant narrative of her lifelong, and even posthumous, relationship with her mother. The result is an honest and bittersweet meditation on love, understanding, and reconciliation.
Also in this episode - Kathy Bates Emmy win for Supporting Actress in American Horror Story: Coven.
Jen Ponton (she/her) Last seen off-Broadway in Halley Feiffer’s How To Make Friends and then Kill Them (Rattlestick, 2013), Jen has spent the past decade building a vibrant career in film and television. Highlights include Dietland, 30 Rock, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Orange is the New Black, Law & Order: SVU, and Blue Bloods, among many others. Jen also starred in Ash Christian’s Love on the Run, alongside Frances Fisher, Annaleigh Ashford, and Steve Howey. She has since appeared in Rebecca Miller’s She Came to Me and Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog, opposite Greta Gerwig and Kieran Culkin.
Deborah Unger’s (she/her) artistic journey has been as dynamic as it is enduring. She began her career with dreams of musical comedy stardom, crafting and performing cabaret shows in the vibrant Village scene. From there, she transitioned to film and television, debuting in Ragtime and continuing with roles in 911: Lone Star, FBI: Most Wanted, and her personal favorite, Olga, the Penguin’s Russian maid in Gotham. Her film credits include acclaimed projects such as Motherless Brooklyn, Eighth Grade, and the Oscar-winning Birdman.
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CFDA Award Winning Designer Francisco Costa joins Behind the Awards to review Sunset Blvd. Francisco also shares the launch of his new beauty line Coast Brazil.
Also in this episode Meryl Streeps 2004 Emmy Win for Angels in America, a busy Behind the Awards weekend of BroadwayCon 10 Panel discussing Real Women Have Curves and Nancy McKeon in the Off Broadway Play Pen Pals.
Francisco Costa, the 13-year-long former creative director of womenswear for Calvin Klein. After his departure from the brand in 2016, Costa, an avid environmentalist, returned to his home country of Brazil where he discovered local healing rituals and an untapped wealth of curative native ingredients in the Amazon rainforest.
Francisco assumed the role of Women’s Creative Director of Calvin Klein Collection after working directly with Calvin Klein and with other top design houses such as Gucci, Balmain Couture, and Oscar de la Renta. Mr. Costa’s first collection for the house debuted for Spring 2004.
Mr. Costa’s work is critically acclaimed, and he has received numerous awards. In 2006 and again in 2008, the Council of Fashion Designers of America named him the Womenswear Designer of the Year.
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Alison Arngrim joins Behind the Awards to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Little House on the Prairie. Alison shares how she was cast as Nellie Oleson. What it was like to work with Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert. Did you know Alison played Eve Plumbs daughter on Fantasy Island? Alison also talks about guest starring on The Love Boat, what it’s like being a child start and her one woman show - Confessions of a Prairie Bitch.
Also on this show - Joan Rivers 1990 Emmy Win for Best Talk Show Host. Review of Off Broadway Play Still starring Melissa Gilbert & Mark Moses.
Alison Arngrim began as a prominent child TV actress who was best known for her role as "bad girl" Nellie Oleson on "Little House on the Prairie" (NBC, 1974-1983). Born into a show business family (her father was a talent manager, while her mother worked as a prominent voice over actress), Arngrim began acting at a very young age.
She landed her most lasting role on the hit family drama, "Little House on the Prairie." Arngrim played the part of bratty Nellie Oleson for eight years on the show, and became a household name during the show's 1970s heyday.
In addition to guest spots on shows like "Fantasy Island" and "The Love Boat", she also starred in the made-for-TV movie "I Married Wyatt Earp,”
"The Last Place on Earth", "Le deal" and "Make the Yuletide Gay" (2009).
Arngrim focuses her attention on her various charitable activities, most notably raising awareness of AIDS prevention. In 2011, she published a memoir about her life and her most famous role, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned To Love Being Hated.
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Tony Winner J. Harrison Ghee joined Behind the Awards to reminisce on their Some Like it Hot Tony nomination and win and how the subject of identity has evolved since then. J also takes us on a journey to create Lady Chablis for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Plus going from Swing to Dance Captain to Lola in Kinky Boots.
Also in this episode - A review of Wonderful World.
J. Harrison Ghee -Tony and Grammy Award winner, made history as the first non-binary actor to win in a leading individual performance category for creating the role as “Daphne/Jerry” in Some Like it Hot, which also garnered them Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. Also on Broadway, Ghee starred as “Lola” Kinky Boots, created the role of “Andre Mayhem” in Mrs. Doubtfire, and co-starred opposite Harry Connick, Jr. as “Johnny Hooker” in The Sting. On television, Ghee was selected to play the title role in “Robyn’s Story” on the hit FOX anthology series Accused (dir. Billy Porter), starred as “Kwame” in Netflix’s Raising Dion, and guest starred on HBO’s High Maintenance. A Fayetteville, North Carolina native, Ghee moved to New York City to study at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and began their professional career working at Tokyo Disney, on cruise ships and national tours. They live by the mantra, “You have to free yourself to see yourself,” with the hope of inspiring people to dream big and to chase those dreams. An outspoken advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community, Ghee has been involved with many organizations, including Broadway Cares, GLAAD, and God’s Love We Deliver, among others. They hope to create roles and conversations that reach beyond what was and into a realm of infinite possibilities.
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McKinley Belcher III pays Behind the Awards a visit before taking his final bow in A Guide for the Homesick. He also discuses his Netflix series Eric co-starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Death of a Salesman and how he detoured into a career of acting.
Also in this episode - Jean Smart’s 2025 Golden Globe win for Hacks. A review of Pulitzer Prize winning Play English by Sanaz Toossi at The Roundabout Theater.
Broadway: Happy Loman in Death of a Salesman and Private Louis Henson in A Soldier’s Play at Roundabout Theatre Company. Off-Broadway: The Light (MCC), for which he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award, The Royale (Lincoln Center- Drama Desk Award), and Romeo & Juliet (Classic Stage Company). Film: Alan Brown’s next indie Other People’s Bodies, Eraser:Reborn (Max), Marriage Story (Netflix), The Art of Racing in the Rain (Fox 2000), Trial By Fire, Mapplethorpe, and auteur John Sayles’s indie Go For Sisters. TV: Netflix’s upcoming limited series Zero Day, opposite Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons, Netflix’s recent limited series Eric opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, Ozark, and it’s manga-anime adaptation One Piece, David Simon’s Show Me a Hero and We Own This City (HBO), The Good Lord Bird (Showtime), The Passage (Fox), Mercy Street (PBS), Found (NBC), Power (Starz), among others. McKinley is a proud graduate of Belmont University (BA) and USC School of Dramatic Arts (MFA).
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Behind the Awards looks at what could be nominated for the 2025 Tony Awards. Big in the conversation are Gypsy, Sunset Blvd, Death Becomes Her, Oh Mary!, Our Town, Good Night and Good Luck, Glengarry Glen Ross, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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Anna K Jacobs, Alyse Alan Louis and Jared Loftin visit with Behind the Awards to do a Teeth Deep Dive. They share everything from the original concept album to the expanded slash zone.
Also in the episode - Steven Spielberg’s 1999 Oscar win for Best Director for Saving Private Ryan. Plus the 2nd Tony Committee Eligibility Rulings. Show included in the meeting were: Sunset Blvd.; A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical; Maybe Happy Ending; Tammy Faye; Elf; Swept Away; Death Becomes Her; Cult of Love; Eureka Day; Gypsy; and All In.
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Writer/Producer Matt Williams & Writer Trey Ellis join Behind the Awards to give a first look at their new Musical Delta Blue. Matt and Trey talk about developing the show and their collaboration with Masi Asare, Jimmy Vivino, and Tamara Tunie. Delta Blue invites listeners for a very special night of songs on Tuesday January 21st at The Green Room 42 performed by notable Broadway stars including Producer Tamara Tunie. Get tickets at deltabluemusical.com
Delta Blue, a sweeping new American musical currently in development, follows one man’s journey as he wrestles his troubled past and struggles to save everything dear to him. Set in 1944, the story takes us on a compelling trek from the raw, soulful melodies of the Mississippi Delta to the electrifying rhythms of Memphis’ Beale Street and the smoky nightclubs of Chicago.
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Playwright Ken Urban visits to discuss his play A Guide for the Homesick starring McKinley Belcher III & Uly Schlesinger. Ken gives us the lowdown on the process of getting a play produced in NY as well his role throughout the production. Ken shares the importance of collaborators when putting up a play and this play was lucky enough to have Coleman Domingo in 2017 in Boston which lead to the collaboration with the current director Shira Milikowsky at the DR2.
Also in this episode: Demi Moore’s Golden Globe win for The Substance. SAG Nominations.
Ken Urban is an award-winning playwright whose work for the stage and screen engages the pressing political issues of our time, while avoiding simple didacticism and the false comfort of cynicism. His plays tackle a wide variety of subjects ranging from the rise of anti-gay violence in Uganda to the tragedy of a gay divorce in Boston. Yet, all his writing shares a deep sense of radical empathy and intellectual rigor.
Ken’s plays include A Guide for the Homesick, The Remains, Sense of an Ending, The Correspondent, A Future Perfect, The Awake, and The Happy Sad. You can read more about these plays and learn how to purchase the scripts here.
His plays have been produced Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 59E59 Theatres, the Amoralists and the Summer Play Festival at the Public Theater. In London, his work was staged at Trafalgar Studios in the West End and on the fringe at Theatre503. Regionally, his work has been seen at the Huntington Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, First Floor Theater, and the Mill at Stage Left.
Awards include the EST/Alfred P. Sloan Science & Technology Project Commission, Weissberger Playwriting Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Independent Reviewers of New England’s Award for Best New Script, Huntington Theater Playwriting Fellowship, Headlands Artist Residency, Djerassi Artist Residency, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, and the Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Seed Grant from the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). He is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, an affiliated writer at the Playwrights’ Center, and three-time MacDowell Fellow.
He leads the band Occurrence with vocalists Cat Hollyer and Johnny Hager. Their new double album SLOW VIOLENCE was released in April 2023.
Ken is the Senior Lecturer and Director of Dramatic Writing in the Music and Theater Arts program at MIT. (Yes, MIT has a theater program.) He has also taught writing at Harvard University, Princeton University, Tufts University, Davidson College and Rutgers University.
Ken went to Bucknell University to study Chemical Engineering and left with a degree in English and a playwriting habit. He earned a Ph.D in Literatures in English from Rutgers University and has written extensively about Sarah Kane and 1990s British Theater. He has published scholarly articles on British and American theater in journals like MODERN DRAMA, THEATER (YALE), PAJ and CONTEMPORARY THEATRE REVIEW, and for publishers like Methuen and Blackwell. He doesn’t do much of that anymore. Life is weird like that.
He is represented by Luke Virkstis at WME.
He lives in New York City with his partner Johnny.
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The entire cast of Left on Tenth; Julianna Margulies, Peter Gallagher, Kate MacCluggage, and Peter Francis James join us for a deep dive into the show. How a chance in counter on the corner of 10th Street between Delia Ephron and Juliana lead to her playing the author.
Based on Delia Ephron’s bestselling memoir, this warm and witty new play is directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman.
When she least expects it, Delia, beloved novelist and screenwriter of “You’ve Got Mail,” reconnects with a man from her past and falls into her own romantic comedy. What starts with an unlikely spark blossoms into a love story that seems to defy all odds in the face of life’s challenges. Left on Tenth tells the messy, beautiful true story of a woman “navigating the miraculous life stream of the Beshert” and discovering how to embrace the unpredictable and open her heart again.
Also in this episode - Julie Bowen Emmy Award for Modern Family. Review of Wicked
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Richard Kind stops by to discuss the Ensemble Piece All In co-starring John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, and Renee Elise Goldsberry. Fans know Richard from TVs Mad About You, Only Murders in The Building, Spin City and Curb your Enthusiasm.
Also in this episode - Sharon Stone’s Best Actress Golden Globe for Casino. Review of Swept Away.
Richard Kind, a Drama Desk Award winner and Tony nominee for the Broadway hit The Big Knife, is an accomplished stage, screen and television actor who continues to redefine the term character actor. Kind is starring as Sam Meyers in the Amazon Original Series Red Oaks (2014). He appeared in the 2013 Best Picture Academy Award-winning Argo (2012). Additional film credits include The Visitor (2007) and The Station Agent (2003), among many others, as well as voicing characters in A Bug's Life (1998) and Cars (2006). In television, besides his infamous roles on Spin City (1996) and Mad About You (1992), Kind starred in the acclaimed HBO series Luck (2011), has guest starred on many shows, and has had recurring roles on Luck (2011)and Gotham (2014). On stage, Kind has starred in the smash hit Broadway musical The Producers, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Candide, and Bounce, among others. Kind started his career in Chicago with the Practical Theatre Company, founded by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brad Hill and Gary Kroeger.
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Eila & Bruce go through their top moments of 2024 including: The Outsiders, Wicked, Taylor Swift, Sunset Blvd and more! Plus don’t miss what they are excited about for 2025!
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Grey Henson visited to discuss his starring role as Buddy in Elf the Musical on Broadway. Grey talks about working with his co-start Sean Astin who is making his Broadway Debut. Grey also recalls where he was when he received his Tony Nomination for Mean Girls. We learn how his career started in Book of Mormon and how he almost didn’t do Shucked on Broadway.
Also in this episode - Hugh Laurie Gold Globe win for House. Review of A Guide the Homesick and TV Sitcom Actors…how old are they?
Grey Henson is currently starring as Buddy the Elf in Broadway’s limited engagement of Elf The Musical. He made his Broadway debut as Elder McKinley in Broadway’s The Book of Mormon, a role that he performed on the first national tour. He starred as Storyteller 2 in the 2022 Broadway musical of Shucked, which received a Tony Award Nomination for Best New Musical and received Tony and Drama Award nominations for his performance as Damian in the original Broadway cast of Mean Girls. He recently made his Kennedy Center debut in Tick Tick Boom. On television, Grey recurred as Tate in Netflix’s Girls5Eva and on ABC’s Suburgatory. Additionally, he can be seen in Sony Pictures A Journal for Jordan directed by Denzel Washington. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
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Award winning actor TR Knight stopped by on the heels of the casting announcement of Stranger Things on Broadway. TR also discusses The Merchant of Venice, Grey’s Anatomy and his passion of all things Jim Henson and getting to work with the Muppets on Sesame Street.
Also on this episode - Julie Bowen Emmy Win for Modern Family, a review of Gypsy starring Audra McDonald, Danny Burstein, Joy Woods, and Jordan Tyson.
T.R. Knight’s Broadway credits include A Life in the Theatre, It’s Only A Play, Noises Off and Tartuffe. Off-Broadway credits include The Merchant of Venice, Pocatello, Romeo and Juliet, and Scattergood, for which he received a Drama Desk nomination. Other theater credits include Parade at the Mark Taper and Amadeus at the Guthrie. His television credits include The Flight Attendant Genius: Picasso, Genius: Einstein, Stephen King’s 11.22.63, and The Comey Rule. He received an Emmy nomination for his work on Grey’s Anatomy. Film credits include 42 and Forge.
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