Our guest today made his Broadway debut at the age of 16 in the title role in Dear Evan Hansen. He was the winner of the Best Actor Award at the 2018 National High School Musical Theatre Awards (known more commonly as the Jimmy Awards).

Andrew joined our Director of Marketing, Nella Vera, to discuss how he related to the role of Evan, his theatre company Zneefrock Productions, and heading off to Harvard this Fall.

For tickets and information visit:

https://54below.com/events/a-newsical-hope/

See Andrew sing “Only Us:”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l97Nza8mtc

See Andrew’s Jimmy Awards performance of “I Love Betsy:”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4HGSE2dd9Y

Watch the original (8th grade) cast of Star Wars: A New(sical) Hope:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ySOIYKMyXc

Credits

This podcast is hosted by Nella Vera and Adrian Karnani and produced by Grace Benigni, with support from the Feinstein’s/54 Below marketing staff.

Artwork by Philip Romano.

Follow Nella on Twitter at @spinstripes and Adrian on Instagram at @adriankarnani.