Andy Mientus
Jon
Andy Mientus is an actor and writer best known for his work on Broadway and television. He recently starred in the live action television adaptation of “Grendel” based on the award winning Dark Horse comic book. Also on Netflix, he can be seen in “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings: Two Doors Down” (GLAAD Media Award) and in the series recurring role of Hartley Rathaway (aka The Pied Piper) on the hit CW series “The Flash”. Andy made his television debut as composer Kyle Bishop on the NBC musical drama “Smash”, and was also a series regular on the NBC/Universal series “Gone”. Other recurring roles include on “Anger Management” (FX) and “Chasing Life” (Freeform). On Broadway, Andy starred as “Marius” in the revival of Les Miserables, and as “Hanschen” in Deaf West Theater’s revival of Spring Awakening, which he also co-conceived with director Michael Arden. Other stage credits include the National Tour of Wicked, the title role in Tommy at The Denver Center, Moisés Kaufman’s revival of Bent at Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the Off-Broadway revival of Carrie at MCC, Tick Tick Boom at Bucks County Playhouse, and recently Jim Henson’s musical Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas directed by Christopher Gattelli at Studebaker Theater in Chicago. Andy made his London stage debut a few years ago in the new musical The View Upstairs at Soho Theatre. He is a founding company member of The Forest of Arden and was associate director of their first commission, ALIEN/NATION, at Williamstown Theatre Festival. As a writer, he made his debut with the book and lyrics to Burn All Night at American Repertory Theater (ART), and with the middle grade fiction series The Backstagers from Amulet/Abrams. Andy’s YA novel, Fraternity was published in September 2022 by Amulet/Abrams which was recently optioned by Sony Pictures Television and RuCo. He can be heard on “The Jonathan Larson Project” (Ghostlight Records) and “R&H Goes Pop”. Andy trained at the University of Michigan immediately prior to making his professional debut in Spring Awakening directed by Michael Mayer. IG: @AndyMientus
Krystina Alabdado
Susan
KRYSTINA ALABADO Broadway: Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls, American Psycho, Green Day’s American Idiot. National Tours: Evita, American Idiot, Spring Awakening. Off-Broadway: The Mad Ones (Samantha Brown), Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic Theatre Company), David Bowie’s Lazarus (NYTW). Select Regional: Sunday in the Park with George (Dot/Marie, Pasadena Playhouse), Kiss My Aztec (Hartford Stage), Miss You Like Hell (La Jolla Playhouse), Tick Tick Boom (Bucks County Playbouse), Mystic Pizza (Ogunquit Playhouse), Burn All Night (A.R.T.). TV/Film: Voice of Cherri Bomb on Hazbin Hotel (Amazon Prime), Better Nate Than Ever (Disney+), If You See Something, The Zombie Wedding, First Reformed, Tyrant (FX), God Friended Me (CBS), Monster High (Nickelodeon), Mecha Builders (HBOMax), Voltron (Netflix). IG/TikTok @krystinaalabado
Larry owens
michael
Larry Owens is the recipient of a 2023 Jonathan Larson Grant as well as a winner of both a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor and a Lucille Lortell Award for starring as the alter ego of writer/composer/lyricist Michael R. Jackson in the Pulitzer prize-winning musical A STRANGE LOOP at Playwrights Horizons. Larry can most recently be seen on ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (ABC), LIFE & BETH (HULU), HIGH MAINTENANCE (HBO), BETTY (HBO), SEARCH PARTY (HBO Max), PROBLEMISTA (A24), DUMB MONEY (SONY) and the upcoming Miramax feature, SILENT RETREAT, directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson.
Larry studied drama and improvisation at the School at Steppenwolf. Owens starred in the curated concert SONDHEIMIA at Carnegie Hall, where he explored time, love, and ambition through the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. He is the author of The American Football Musical, a satire of The Blind Side-esque sports/white savior films; The Talk Show, about an evil female talk show host (also his directorial debut at the Tribeca Film Festival under the title The Gag starring Sherie Rene Scott); Five Sisters, a play about gendered succession written in verse and AAVE.
