Brit West
Biography
Broadway: The Color Purple. TV: “Power,” “Flesh and Bone,” “FBI: Most Wanted.” Tour Favorites: Hadestown (Persephone), The Color Purple, Dreamgirls (Effie), Frozen (Bulda), Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Legally Blonde (Pilar). Regional Favorites: Yale Rep, Hollywood Bowl/LA Philharmonic, Deloris in Sister Act (Fulton), Ado Annie in Oklahoma! (Music Circus), The Color Purple (Paper Mill), Legally Blonde (Ogunquit, NC Theatre).
Credits
Hadestown, The Color Purple
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Timothy H. Lee
Currently in: Hadestown
Incredible honor to sing it again. Broadway: KPOP. National Tour: Hadestown. Regional: GATSBY (A.R.T), Miss Saigon (Casa Mañana), Noble Family (La Mirada Theatre). Love to my family. To best team DGRW. All the glory to God. 하나님께 모든 영광. Isaiah 58:11.
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Lillias White
Currently in: Hadestown
Lillias made her Broadway debut in Barnum. Other Broadway credits include Cats, Carrie, Dreamgirls, Once On This Island, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Chicago, and FELA! (Tony nomination). For her role in The Life, she won Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Off-Broadway, White performed in the New Group’s Black No More, the Public Theater’s Romance In Hard Times (Obie Award), Dinah Was at the Gramercy Theatre, Second Stage Theatre’s Crowns (Audelco Award) and Texas In Paris at the York Theatre Company. Concert performances include the critically acclaimed cabaret show at 54 Below called The Lillias White Effect, Funny Girl, Hair, Dreamgirls, and South Pacific, which was broadcast on PBS in “Great Performances.” She also has appeared in concert at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center, and has toured internationally with her one-woman show, From Brooklyn To Broadway. Television appearances include a regular role on “Sesame Street” (Emmy Award); recurring roles on FX’s "Grotesquerie," Netflix’s “The Get Down” and “Russian Doll,” and guest star appearances on “New Amsterdam,” “Search Party,” “Gotham,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order,” and “NYPD Blue.” Her screen credits include Heartworm, The Drummer, Disney’s Hercules, Anastasia, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Game 6, Pieces Of April and Then She Found Me. Lillias holds an honorary Ph.D in Fine Arts from the City University of New York.
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Grace Yoo
Currently in: Hadestown
Broadway debut! Tour: A Christmas Carol (Jess), Todd Rundgren (Clearly Human, White Knight). Regional: Soft Power (Hillary Clinton) at Signature Theatre DC, Into the Woods (Florinda) at the Hollywood Bowl. Mamma Mia! (Sophie) at East West Players. Special thanks to Aperture Talent. For 엄마, 아빠, 깐돌, and Max. Spring will come!
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Tom Hewitt
Currently in: Hadestown
Broadway credits include Chicago, Amazing Grace, Dr. Zhivago, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dracula the Musical,The Rocky Horror Show (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), The Lion King, Art, The Sisters Rosensweig. Off-Broadway: Aaron Marks’ Another Media, Treasure Island, Jeffrey, Beau Jest (Outer Critics nomination), Richard III, Othello. National tours: Finding Neverland, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby, Urinetown. Recent regional credits: Sweeney Todd (Provincetown Theatre), I Hate Hamlet (Bucks County), The Sting (Papermill Playhouse), My Paris (Long Wharf), Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (La Jolla Playhouse). TV and film include “Elementary,” “Law & Order,” “Frasier,” and Julie Taymor’s Fools’ Fire.
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Emily Afton
Currently in: Hadestown
Broadway: Amélie, Hair. National Tour: Hair, Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Regional: Amélie (CTG), Waitress (ART). When not doing theatre, she tours nationally singing with the bands Saved by the 90s, The Little Mermen, and Emergency Tiara. BFA Emerson College. Honored to join this incredible cast.
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Jordan Fisher
Currently in: Hadestown
Jordan Fisher recently reprised the role of Anthony in the hit Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd opposite Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford. Prior to that, he broke ground in the Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen as the first Evan of color to take over the role full-time. Jordan recurred for two seasons on CW’s “The Flash” as Bart Allen/Impulse. He was seen in the Netflix dance film Work It opposite Sabrina Carpenter, and appeared in the sequel to the wildly popular Netflix rom-com franchise To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before as John Ambrose. Jordan starred in and Executive Produced Ace Entertainment’s rom-com film Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between based on the YA novel by Jennifer E. Smith. He played Mark Cohen in FOX’s Rent Live and was the breakout star of the Grease Live telecast on FOX, where he sang and played guitar in the role of Doody opposite Carly Rae Jepsen and Julianne Hough. Other past credits include a recurring role on the hit MTV series “Teen Wolf.” He made his Broadway debut to rave reviews in Hamilton as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton. Soon after, Lin-Manuel Miranda asked him to sing the Moana anthem “You're Welcome” as a duet together for the animated feature soundtrack. Jordan was well known to young audiences as Dove Cameron’s love interest on the hit Disney Channel series “Liv and Maddie.” He spent two seasons on the ABC Family hit series “Secret Life of the American Teenager” as Jacob, the pushy surprise step-sibling from South Africa. He appeared in the Disney Channel original movie musical franchise Teen Beach Movie, which was named the second highest rated TV movie in cable history, as Seacat, the lovable, bucket hat-wearing, singing, dancing head of the surfer gang! He is an accomplished dancer and choreographer who won the 2018 mirror ball on “Dancing with the Stars” in their 25th season on ABC, and went on to host “Dancing with the Stars: Juniors” on ABC. He also hosted and performed at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards and was nominated for best new artist for his EP on Hollywood Records.
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