Brandon Burks
Biography
Tour: Disney’s Aladdin, Peter Pan, Dreamgirls. Regional: Footloose (Kennedy Center), A Chorus Line (Hollywood Bowl), Singin’ In the Rain, Hunchback Of Notre Dame (La Mirada) Director: Gone Forgotten Year (Tribeca Film Festival).
Credits
Gypsy
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Ethan Joseph
Currently in: Gypsy
Ethan Joseph is honored to return to Broadway in Gypsy! Credits: Broadway debut in Tina – The Tina Turner Musical; Little Michael in the First National Tour of MJ the Musical; Little Emile in The Met Opera’s Grammy-winning opera Champion; Char’es-Baby in The Met Opera’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2024); Little Noah in EST’s Still; Kurt/Friedrich Swing in PMP’s The Sound of Music; and Travis Younger in APAC’s Raisin. Thanks to Mom, Dad, Jordan, Ava, Lisa Calli, Barry Kolker, Heidi Griffiths, Jordan Thaler, Chalin Tulyathan, Janine Molinari & Dr. Bryan Wade. Forever Gigi!
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Hunter Capellán
Currently in: Gypsy
Hunter Capellán is very excited to be a part of Gypsy at Majestic Theater. His latest work was at the 97th Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade in The Deliciously Delectable World of Wonka skit. Hunter studies dance at Broadway Dance Center in New York City, and he loves being a 7th grader at Achievement First Bushwick Middle School. Hunter’s most enjoyable subject is history and favorite dance styles are Tap and Hip-Hop. He is motivated and inspired by his older sister, Jayla, who is training to dance professionally. When he’s not dancing or in school Hunter enjoys playing basketball and running track. Hunter’s goal is to continually develop his technique, refine his artistry and bring his unique talent to both stages and screens with hopes of inspiring other young kids along the way.
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Lili Thomas
Currently in: Gypsy
Lili Thomas made history last year on Broadway as the first Asian American Mama Morton in Chicago. 1st Nat’l tour: Dear Evan Hansen as Cynthia Murphy. Off Broadway: We’re Gonna Die (Second Stage), Only Human, The Hello Girls (Prospect/Cast Album/Kennedy Center). Soloist at Geffen Hall (Lincoln Center), Disney Millenium Symphonies with the NY Philharmonic, Kennedy Center (Eisenhower, Terrace, and Millenium stages), Symphony Space. Select Regional: PLCO, Berkeley Rep, Milwaukee Rep, and most recently, Knoxville with Ahrens & Flahrety. NYU/Tisch BFA. Thanks to the best reps at DGRW, Ellie, and my family! For Dad & Bill, thank you for the embouchure.
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Lesli Margherita
Currently in: Gypsy
Lesli Margherita won the Laurence Olivier Award for her West End debut in Zorro The Musical and originated the roles of Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda The Musical and Mona Kent in Dames at Sea on Broadway. Off-Broadway she received Drama Desk, Lortel, and Outer Critics nominations for Who’s Holiday, Emojiland, and A Scythe of Time. Television credits include recurring and guest starring roles on “NCIS Hawaii” “Minx”, “Fairly OddParents”, “The Rookie”, “The Crew”, “Raven’s Home”, “Homeland”, “Instinct”, “Seven Seconds”, and “Transparent”. Currently on film in “The Many Saints of Newark” and “Opening Night”. Lesli’s voice can also be heard on several animated films and shows on Paramount+, Disney, FOX and Nickelodeon. Select regional credits include leading roles in Nine, Damn Yankees, Guys and Dolls, Flamingo Kid, Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Kiss Me Kate, Man Of La Mancha, Little Shop Of Horrors, and Spamalot. Her album Rule Your Kingdom, is out now from Broadway Records.
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Kevin Csolak
Currently in: Gypsy
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 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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Danny Burstein
Currently in: Gypsy
Danny Burstein has appeared in 19 Broadway shows, including: Pictures From Home; Moulin Rouge, for which he received the Tony Award for playing Harold Zidler; Doolittle in My Fair Lady; Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof; Herr Schultz in Cabaret; Max in The Snow Geese; Tokio in Golden Boy; Buddy Plummer in Follies; The Taxi Driver in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; Luther Billis in South Pacific; Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone (Ovation Award nomination); Company; A Class Act; Titanic; and three seasons as an original company member of Tony Randall’s National Actors Theater: Three Men on a Horse, Saint Joan, The Seagull, A Little Hotel on the Side and The Flowering Peach. Off-Broadway includes: Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Delacorte); Describe the Night (Atlantic); Talley’s Folly (Lucille Lortel Award nomination); Mrs. Farnsworth (opposite Sigourney Weaver & John Lithgow); Psych; All in the Timing; Merrily We Roll Along; Weird Romance; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, three appearances at Carnegie Hall as well as performing at the Metropolitan Opera as Frosch in the Jeremy Sams/Douglas Carter Beane production of Die Fledermaus. Film/TV includes: “Julia,” “Dora,” “Tokyo Vice,” “The Good Fight,” “Will Trent”, “Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies”, Molli and Max in the Future, “The Accidental Wolf,” Gary Jr. Or Jesus of Framingham, Tick Tick Boom, Separation, “F Is For Family,” The Same Storm, “Central Park,” “Dr. Death,” “Evil,” “Instinct,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Blacklist, “Tales of the City,” “Deception,” “Elementary,” Indignation (directed by James Schamus), The Family Fang (directed by Jason Bateman), Blackhat, “Boardwalk Empire” (directed by Martin Scorsese), “Louie,” “The Good Wife,” “Absolutely Fabulous,” “Ed,” all the “Law & Order” series, “Hope & Faith,” Transamerica, Deception, Affluenza, American Milkshake, Nor’easter, Construction, The Sounding; and Trust, Greed, Bullets & Bourbon. He was honored with his own Sardi’s caricature in 2009. Mr. Burstein proudly served on the Artists Committee for the Kennedy Center Honors for 15 years and received his training at New York’s famed H.S. of Performing Arts, the Moscow Art Theater, Queens College (BA) and the University of California, San Diego (MFA). In 2022, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, from Queens College. Burstein has received the Tony Award (7 nominations), the Drama League Award (3 nominations), two Drama Desk Awards (4 nominations), four Outer Critics Circle Awards (6 nominations), and three Grammy Award nominations.
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