Cast Members

Janayé McAlpine

Currently in: Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Janayé is thrilled to join the Broadway company of Moulin Rouge! Endless gratitude to her family, friends, and The Mine for their support. Dreams are coming true! Credits: MJ: The Musical (Broadway/First National Tour), The Wanderer (Paper Mill).

Lizzy McAlpine

LCT/Broadway debut. Lizzy gained recognition when she began to share original songs and covers on Soundcloud and YouTube, eventually crossing over to Instagram and TikTok including sharing Instagram lives dedicated to Broadway covers. In 2020, Lizzy released her debut album, Give Me A Minute. Lizzy’s widely successful sophomore album, five seconds flat, was released to critical acclaim two years later, in the spring of 2022, and featured 2x Platinum-certified track “ceilings,” which debuted at No. 75 on the Billboard “Hot 100” chart. Lizzy has toured the world over, most recently on her extensive international run this year following her third studio album and major label debut, Older, which was released in April to widespread praise. Most recently, Lizzy shared a deluxe edition of the record, Older (And Wiser), out now on RCA Records.

Ryan McCartan

Currently in: The Great Gatsby

McCartan is known for playing Jason "J.D." Dean in the original Off-Broadway cast of Heathers: The Musical. His Broadway credits include playing Fiyero Tigelaar in the 15th anniversary cast of Wicked and Prince Hans in the closing cast of Frozen. In January 2025, he is set to take over the title role in The Great Gatsby on Broadway.

Anastaćia McCleskey

Award winning actor. Eight Broadway shows, tons of regional, some TV & Films. “I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become & might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed & handicapped me on account of my race, that had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain.” — Mary Church Terrell.

Jaysin McCollum

Currently in: The Lion King

Cincinnati, OH native. Dance: Charlotte Ballet, Chautauqua Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, DCDC. Broadway: The Lion King, original cast of The Lion King Las Vegas. Regional: Oklahoma! (Dream Jud). TV: The Emmy Awards, “Dancing with the Stars.”

Wade McCollum

Broadway: Water For Elephants, Wicked. National Tours: My Fair Lady; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Jersey Boys. West End: It Happened in Key West. Off-Broadway includes Make Me Gorgeous (Off-Broadway Alliance Award; Drama Desk, Lortel award nominations), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Norton Award, Lortel Award nom.) and Triassic Parq. Regional includes Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Los Angeles Outer Critic’s Circle, BackStage Garland awards), Cabaret (Dallas Fort Worth Theatre Critic’s Forum Award) TV: "FBI: Most Wanted," "Madame Secretary," "Prodigal Son," "At Home With Amy Sedaris," “Nightcap," "The Knick," "Submissions Only.”

Audra McDonald

Currently in: Gypsy

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and an Emmy, in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts—America’s highest honor for achievement in the field—from President Barack Obama. In addition to her Tony-winning performances in Carousel, Master Class, Ragtime, A Raisin in the Sun, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill—the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London’s West End—she has appeared on Broadway in The Secret Garden; Marie Christine (Tony nomination); Henry IV; 110 in the Shade (Tony nomination); Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Tony nomination); and Ohio State Murders (Tony nomination). On television, she was seen by millions as the Mother Abbess in NBC’s The Sound of Music Live!, won an Emmy Award for her role as host of PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center, and received Emmy nominations for Wit, A Raisin in the Sun and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Having played Dr. Naomi Bennett on Shonda Rhimes’s Private Practice (ABC) and Liz Reddick (formerly Lawrence) on both The Good Wife (CBS) and The Good Fight (Paramount+), she may now be seen as Dorothy Scott on Julian Fellowes’s The Gilded Age (HBO). On film, she has appeared in Seven Servants, The Object of My Affection, Cradle Will Rock, It Runs in the Family, The Best Thief in the World, She Got Problems, Rampart, Ricki and the Flash, Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, the movie-musical Hello Again, Cinergistik’s documentary Whitney Houston in Focus, the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions’ Rustin and MGM’s Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect. McDonald is a Juilliard-trained soprano, whose opera credits include La voix humaine and Send at Houston Grand Opera, and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Los Angeles Opera, where the resulting recording earned her two Grammy Awards. She has issued five solo albums on the Nonesuch label as well as Sing Happy with the New York Philharmonic on Decca Gold. She also maintains a major career as a concert artist, regularly appearing on the great stages of the world and with leading international orchestras. She is a founding member of Black Theatre United, board member of Covenant House International, and prominent advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, whose favorite roles are those performed offstage, as an activist, wife to actor Will Swenson, and mother.

Lara McDonnell

Lara’s feature credits include the Academy Award-winning Belfast, written and directed by Kenneth Branagh for Focus Features/Universal; Artemis Fowl, also directed by Kenneth Branagh, for Disney; Greatest Days for Elysian Films; Visitation (Blinder Films); The Delinquent Season (Parallel Films); and Love, Rosie (Canyon Creek/Constantin Films). Television includes “The Last Bus” (Wildseed/Netflix), “The Holiday” (Chalkboard), “Ballistic” (Automatik Entertainment/New Regency) and “To Walk Invisible,” written and directed by Sally Wainwright for BBC. Stage work includes the title role in Matilda for the RSC/West End and The Hills of California in the West End.

Henry McGinniss

Currently in: The Book of Mormon

Broadway debut! National tour: The Book of Mormon. Chicago: Bat Boy (Edgar—Joseph Jefferson Award, Best Actor), Urinetown (Bobby Strong - Joseph Jefferson Award nomination, Best Actor), Hairspray (Link Larkin). Regional: Peter and the Starcatcher (Boy/Peter). TV: “Chicago Fire.” Proud CCPA graduate. “Love to my family and Hayley.”

John McGinty

Broadway: Children of a Lesser God w/ Joshua Jackson directed by Kenny Leon, King Lear w/ Glenda Jackson. New York: The Orchard with Jessica Hecht and Baryshnikov, Fêtes de la Nuit, The Healing, Veritas, Movement of the Soul, and Broadway Backwards. Regional: Block Association (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Levity (Warren Miller PAC), Tribes (Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Everyman Theatre), Pippin (Center Theatre Group / Deaf West) and was the first Deaf actor to play Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Sacramento Music Circus and La Mirada Theatre) Film: Better Nate Than Ever, Wonderstruck, Sign, The First Purge. TV: “New Amsterdam,” “Lisey’s Story,” “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” “This Close,” “High Maintenance,” “Don’t Shoot the Messenger.” Workshop: Titus with Public Theater, Hamlet (Hamlet) with Deaf West/Fiasco Theater.

Michael McKean

Currently in: Glengarry Glen Ross

Known for his Emmy-nominated role in AMC’s Better Call Saul, along with his decades long work in many films like This Is Spinal Tap, McKean’s recent credits include Emmy winner Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, along with series Dead Ringers and The Diplomat currently streaming season 2 on Netflix. Coming up in spring/summer 2025, McKean will be starring in the sequel to This is Spinal Tap “Goodbye Cleveland” along with Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer as well as the upcoming film In Memoriam starring Marc Maron.

Donna McKechnie

Currently in: Wicked

Donna received a Tony Award for her performance in A Chorus Line. Other Broadway: How to Succeed…; The Education of Hyman Kaplan; Promises, Promises; Company; Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (actor and choreographer); On the Town; State Fair (Fred Astaire Award); The Visit. Bob Fosse invited Donna to play the lead in his last production, the National tour of Sweet Charity (Helen Hayes nom). She has starred in and choreographed numerous productions regionally and productions in London’s West End, Paris and Tokyo. TV: “Hullaballoo”, “Fame”, “Cheers”, “Dark Shadows” and HBO Specials. Film: The Little Prince, Every Little Step. Donna’s memoir, “Time Steps – My Musical Comedy Life” was published by Simon and Schuster. In 2019 Donna was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. She couldn’t be happier to join this Wicked family!