Max Kumangai
Biography
he/him. Broadway: Jagged Little Pill, Waitress. Off-Broadway: What’ s That Smell, Lysistrata Jones, The Civil War. Tour: Waitress, Hair and Joseph.... Five shows at Encores! TV: “Boardwalk Empire” and “Vinyl.” BFA from UMich. Endless gratitude to creatives, SW Casting and Nicolosi and Co. Love to BT and my family!
Credits
Hadestown, Waitress, Jagged Little Pill
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Currently in: Hadestown
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).
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Alex Puette
Currently in: Hadestown
Broadway debut! Tours: Legally Blonde, Young Frankenstein, A Christmas Story, Riff in West Side Story (Int’l). Favorite regional: Jersey Boys (Nick Massi), Singin’ In The Rain (Don Lockwood), Joseph… (Pharaoh), A Chorus Line (Greg). BFA: University of Michigan. Endless gratitude to Mom and Dad, Brad and Margo, Archie, and Billy. For JoJo.
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Shea Renne
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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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Tara Jackson
Currently in: Hadestown
Tara Jackson is honored to be making her Broadway debut in Hadestown! Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, she is an honors graduate from Berklee College of Music. Favorite credits include her three-time award-winning performances of Celie in The Color Purple and Hadestown’s Canadian premiere. Much love to Steven and family.
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