Cast Members

Jen Sese

Currently in: Hamilton

She/Her Broadway: Hair. Tour: Hamilton (Philip Tour, LA Company), Hair (First National), Mamma Mia! (Las Vegas), …Spelling Bee (Chicago). Off Broadway/Regional: Carrie (MCC Theater), Dogfight (Second Stage Theater), Life After (Goodman Theatre). B.F.A., U of M. Love to Mom, friends & RS. Big thanks to KMR, Telsey, and the Hamilton team.

Tally Sessions

Recent: Henry 6 (Old Globe). Broadway: Company, Anastasia, War Paint, Falsettos, Paramour, School of Rock, Big Fish, The House of Blue Leaves. Off-Broadway: The Gardens of Anuncia (LCT), Giant (Public Theater), Queen of the Mist (Transport Group), Anyone Can Whistle (Encores!), Yank! (York Theatre), TV: "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," "Failling Water," "Elementary."

Adéa Michelle Sessoms

Currently in: Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Credits: “10 Years Golden” (Santigold), “99 Cents” Tour (Santigold). National Tours: Wicked (First and Second National Tours). Regional: North Shore Music Hall. TV/Film: “The Other Two” (HBO), “The Ellen Show.” BFA, University of the Arts.

Marcus Shane

Currently in: Aladdin

Broadway: Mamma Mia! National Tour: Mean Girls, The King and I (Lincoln Center), Anything Goes (Roundabout Theatre Co.). Endless gratitude to Mom and Dad, CTG, Casey Nicholaw, Casey Hushion and the whole Disney team!

Sally Shaw

Currently in: Gypsy

Broadway debut! Regional: La Cage aux Folles as Anne (Barrington Stage) dir. Mike Donahue. Profoundly shaped by her work in the Brooklyn music and drag communities alongside Sammy Rae & the Friends and Sasha Velour, and by serving as company manager for NYC’s Sea Dog Theater. Ithaca College BFA. Grateful for CLA Partners (from day one!) and HCKR. To her family, Dexter, chosen family, teachers, mentors, Gypsy casting and creatives: Thank you. Non Nobis.

Brendan Sheehan

Currently in: Gypsy

Brendan Sheehan is so grateful to be making his Broadway debut in Gypsy! BFA: Boston Conservatory, Class of 2024. Thank you to casting, the creatives, and the wonderful team at Henderson Hogan for believing in me. So much love to my family and friends for their endless support! The biggest thank you to all of the educators who helped me grow along the way.

Jessie Shelton

Currently in: Hadestown

Jessie Shelton (Fate) is delighted to rejoin her Hadestown family in a role she hasn’t performed since before the pandemic! Stage Favorites: Waitress (first national tour), Conflict (Mint Theater), Doubt (Theatre Aspen). Podcasts: 36 Questions: The Podcast Musical, Shipworm, Orbiting Human Circus of the Air. Albums: Daniel Emond’s Kill the Whale, Hadestown, Cruel Intentions: The Musical. Burgeoning voiceover artist and audiobook narrator. Special thanks to my Walter Kerr family, Wolf Talent, my MN family, fur baby Willow, husband Matt, and Tara Jackson for always having my back (and my brain) xx

Helen J Shen

Currently in: Maybe Happy Ending

Helen J Shen is an actor, musician, and writer who has quickly established herself as a force within the theatre industry. Helen currently stars in MCC Theater’s musical The Lonely Few by Zoe Sarnak and Rachel Bonds, directed by Trip Cullman and Ellenore Scott, following their acclaimed performance in the show’s world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in 2022. For their portrayal of JJ, Entertainment Weekly described them as a “force to be reckoned with.” Recently, she captivated audiences in Anna K. Jacobs and Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael R. Jackson’s musical Teeth at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Sarah Benson. Helen’s regional credits also include starring in Anna Ouyang Moench’s Man of God at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and as Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard at ACT of Connecticut. Helen earned a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan, receiving the esteemed Earl V. Moore Award.

Richard Short

Richard Short touts an impressive career spanning film, television and theatre. Credits include starring alongside Denzel Washington in The Tragedy of Macbeth, being nominated Best Lead Actor in “Mary Kills People” (TV)and originating the role of Richard Burton in Cleo. Currently Co-Writer/Producer of Two Of Us - A Play (UK).

Justin Showell

LCT/Broadway debut.Other theater includes Hamilton (National Tour), Buena Vista Social Club (Atlantic) and A Sign Of The Times (York). Education: BFA, MT University of Michigan ‘19.

Christopher Sieber

Currently in: Death Becomes Her

Christopher Sieber started performing shows in his parents’ living room, where he was a triumph at age 7 in “The Christopher Comedy Cavalcade of 1976,” seen by both his parents and unsuspecting neighbors driving by. Then he went immediately to Broadway, where he has been for almost three decades. He has starred in Company, The Prom, Matilda, Pippin, La Cage aux Folles, Shrek (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics noms), Monty Python’s Spamalot (Tony nom and West End Production), Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Into the Woods, Beauty and the Beast, and Triumph of Love. Television: “Blue Bloods,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “The Good Wife,” “The Good Fight,” “Elementary,” “Ed,” “Sex and the City,” “Pushing Daisies,” “It’s All Relative,” “Two of a Kind,” and lots of daytime TV, like “Guiding Light,” “All My Children,” and “Another World,” where his many recurring characters never went anywhere….

Sarah Sigman

Currently in: MJ

Broadway debut! Credits include Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (national tour), On Your Feet! (The Muny), Chicago (national tour). Regional: A Chorus Line (Cape), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (ARLT). Dance Lab NY. All my love and gratitude to God, Mom and Dad, “The Queens”, and CTG!