Jake is an AMDA graduate and just finished swinging The Great Gatsby at Paper Mill Playhouse and on Broadway! He also worked on the Smash workshop as a swing and now makes his ensemble debut!
SMASH, The Great Gatsby
Currently in: The Great Gatsby
Broadway: Once Upon a One More Time. Off-Broadway: Kinky Boots, Another Part of the Forest. National Tour: 9 to 5. World Premieres: Boop!, Moonshine, Beaches. Cast Album: Lizzie, Broadway Records. TV: “The Good Fight,” “Dickinson,” “Louie.” Carnegie Mellon alum.
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Broadway Debut! Off-Broadway: Jersey Boys. National Tour: Disney’s Frozen, The Sound of Music. Regional credits include Come Fall in Love (Old Globe), West Side Story (Signature), Smokey Joe’s Café (Arena Stage), among others. Gratitude and love to DGRW and C.
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Deanna is beyond honored to be making her Broadway Debut in Smash! Her credits include the world premiere of My Best Friend’s Wedding (Ogunquit Playhouse: Ensemble, u/s Kimmy) and West Side Story (International Tour: Consuelo, u/s Anita). She received her BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and is a grateful voice student of Marianne Wells. This is dedicated to the unwavering love of her family and friends, Still Pointe Ballet, and her wonderful team at Pilot Management and Lakey Wolff & Co. I couldn’t be here without you. Luke 1:37 – all glory to God!
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Kristine was just in Joseph Schuman and Austin Stark’s comedy Coup! which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and she was seen in Carol McCann’s The Suit, competing in many short film festivals around the country and receiving some award recognition. She is currently a regular in Julian Fellowes’ “The Gilded Age” as Mrs. Bauer. She will next be seen in Peacock’s “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy.” She is a two-time Tony Award nominee for Taylor Mac’s Gary, A Sequel To Titus Andronicus and for Christopher Durang’s Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike. For VSMS, she was awarded the Outer Critics Circle Award. Additional Broadway credits include The Iceman Cometh, Present Laughter, You Can’t Take It With You, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Green Bird, and others. She has appeared in numerous off-Broadway productions at the NY Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, MTC, Roundabout, Second Stage, the Promenade, Signature, NY Theatre Workshop, and Lincoln Center. She is a recipient of two Obie Awards, a Drama Desk nomination, and many Drama League nominations. She has worked extensively in regional theatres throughout the US. She attended the Yale School of Drama and Northwestern University.
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Raymond Baynard is a New Jersey native and graduate from S.U.N.Y. Purchase with a B.F.A. in Dance. Broadway: MJ the Musical, Hamilton, and Bad Cinderella. Tours: Hamilton and The Lion King. Regional: Jelly’s Last Jam, The Great Gatsby
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Wendi was most recently seen on Broadway as the Nightingale of Samarkand in the revival of Once Upon A Mattress. A native of northern California, Wendi is honored to be a part of the Smash original company. Wendi made her Broadway debut in the acclaimed revival of South Pacific at Lincoln Center and has been seen as an original cast member of New York, New York, Disney’s Frozen, Doctor Zhivago, Promises, Promises (Miss Olson opposite Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes) and Evita (Broadway revival starring Ricky Martin). National Tours: The Light In The Piazza (Franca Naccarelli), Cats, Evita, and Guys & Dolls. Regional credits include: Little Dancer (Kennedy Center), A Little Night Music (Huntington), The Baker’s Wife (Goodspeed). Wendi appeared in Annie Live and The Sound Of Music Live on NBC.
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