Lesli Margherita
Biography
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.
Credits
Gypsy, Dames at Sea, Matilda the Musical
Related Cast Members
Mylinda Hull
Currently in: Gypsy
has been part of New York theatre for over 25 years. After making her Broadway debut as Anytime Annie in the Tony Award-winning revival of 42nd Street (OBC), she continued on Broadway to play opposite such luminaries as Christina Applegate in Sweet Charity (OBC), Jonathan Pryce in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Nathan Lane in The Nance (OBC), and Billy Crystal in Mr. Saturday Night (OBC). She played Lola opposite Jerry Lewis in the National Tour of Damn Yankees. Off-Broadway she recently played Mona Bland in the Jason Robert Brown, Jonathan Marc Sherman and Daisy Prince helmed musical The Connector at MCC. Mylinda was also a part of the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical Road Show at The Public Theatre directed by John Doyle, and the long-running crowd pleaser I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at the Westside Theatre. At the popular New York City Center Encores! series she has played principal roles in five productions and can be heard on three of their Original Cast Recordings; Face The Music, The New Yorkers and Merrily We Roll Along with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Her many regional credits include Murder On The Orient Express at The Old Globe, Dancing At Lughnasa at Two River and her IRNE Award-winning performance as Miss Adelaide in Guys And Dolls at North Shore Music Theatre. On the small screen, Mylinda played the burlesque stripper Pauline who meets a young Bob Fosse in “Fosse/Verdon” Episode 5 and appeared in “The Big C” with Laura Linney, as well as Season 1 and 2 of “Inside Amy Schumer.” Mylinda lives in Brooklyn with husband, their two teenaged children and two dogs named Ry and Soda. Gypsy will be her 7th Broadway show and she is thrilled to be a part of the company.
View Full Profile
Kellie Jean Hoagland
Currently in: Gypsy
Overjoyed & honored to be making her Broadway debut with this extremely talented OBC! Credits: Hamilton (Angelica Tour); Mean Girls (Broadway); West Side Story (Milwaukee Rep); Rock of Ages, SIX (Norwegian Cruise Line Cast & Creative). An immense amount of love & gratitude for my support system; it truly takes a village. Thank you, family, friends, agents at MSA, casting & creatives! We are all right on time.
View Full Profile
Tony d’Alelio
Currently in: Gypsy
Thank you, George & Camille, for the chance to dance on Broadway again. For my Mama Rose, Beth Gillespie. Broadway: Bob Fosse’s Dancin (Principal, Chita Rivera Award – Outstanding Ensemble). Off Broadway: This Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic Theatre). Tours: Hamilton (Samuel Seabury), Cats Revival (Mungojerrie), Kinky Boots (Angel), Matilda (Michael Wormwood), Beauty…Beast (LeFou). TV: We’re Here (HBO), VMA’s (MTV), Good Morning America, The Tamryn Hall Show, Dance Moms: A New Era, PENNYWILD Wednesdays.
View Full Profile
Joy Woods
Currently in: Gypsy
Joy Woods can currently be seen starring as Middle Allie in The Notebook on Broadway. Woods originated the role at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and received The Joseph Jefferson Award for Performer in a Supporting Role – Musical for her performance. Previously, Woods made her Broadway debut as Catherine Parr in Six: The Musical. In 2023, Woods starred as Martha Mills in the Off-Broadway revival of I Can Get it For You Wholesale. The production won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. Woods made her Off-Broadway debut in 2019, originating the role of Chiffon in the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors. She then returned to the show in 2023 as Audrey. Woods resides in New York and graduated from the AMDA College of the Performing Arts.
View Full Profile
James McMenamin
Currently in: Gypsy
Broadway: Of Mice and Men. Off Broadway: Ashville (Cherry Lane), Bad Guys (Second Stage Uptown), Suicide Incorporated (Roundabout Theatre), Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre), BFE (Playwrights Horizons), Middletown (Vineyard Theatre). Regional Credits: New Jersey Shakespeare Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Old Globe, Arena Stage, Intiman, Long Wharf Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Recurring Television Credits: Manifest (NBC), Orange is the New Black (Netflix), Nurse Jackie (Showtime), Public Morals (TNT), One Dollar (Paramount), Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Film: The Union, I’m Your Woman, The Catch, Twelve, In Dubious Battle
View Full Profile
Jordan Wynn
Currently in: Gypsy
Originally from Rochester, New York, Jordan Wynn began dancing at the Draper Center for Dance Education and partook in additional training at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and The Juilliard School Summer Intensive. In 2021, Jordan graduated with her BFA from NYU with a degree in Dance, and a Minor in Social and Cultural Analysis. Her credits include Broadway: Moulin Rouge! (Ensemble, U/S Arabia, La Chocolat), Off-Broadway and National Tour: Oklahoma!, Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas To All!, The Late, Late Show with James Corden, and Jacob’s Pillow. Many thanks to God, my family, friends, casting, educators and my agents!
View Full Profile