BroadwayCon 2025: Full Schedule

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9:30am EST

Impressions of Broadway: Goes Pop!

Saturday February 8, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am EST

Big Broadway names are taking over BroadwayCon with Pop music! ...Or are they? Have you ever wanted to hear popular Broadway voices sing some some of your favorite pop hits? What if Bernadette Peters sang Chappell Roan or Lin-Manuel Miranda sang Olivia Rodrigo? Get ready to hear just that! Join our panelists for pure fun as they sing through popular songs while doing impressions of some of the most famous Broadway stars!

Presenters

Kaden Potak

Kaden Potak (they/he) is a NYC based performer, stage manager, music director, and theatre educator. They’re super excited to be attending their third Broadwaycon after being a finalist for Star to Be in 2023 and on Impressions of Broadway in 2024. Current projects include, “You’re... Read More →

Noah Simau Manumaleuga

Noah Simau Manumaleuga is a Theatre Content Creator and Stage/Voice Actor, widely known for his iconic impression of composer Lin-Manuel Miranda (@umokayig). He also voices "King of Crime" in the upcoming Indie Animated show "Boxtown." He has presented at BroadwayCon every year since... Read More →

Joshua Turchin

Joshua Turchin is a performer, composer, music director, and writer. Select credits: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation (Original Off-Broadway Cast), two Broadway National Tours, Flounder in The Little Mermaid Live-To-Film at The Hollywood... Read More →

Mary Kate Petsky

Mary Kate Petsky is a Los Angeles and New York based Actor, Singer, Voice Actor, and Impressionist. In New York, Mary Kate performed with Kate Baldwin and Bob Stillman in "Intimate Broadway" at Fabbri Concert Hall and starred in "Who's Paying?" at the 13th Street Repertory Theater... Read More →

Saturday February 8, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am EST
Sutton Center

Performance

10:45am EST

You're Invited To My Party: Party Princesses Tell-All

Saturday February 8, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am EST

Sutton Center

Ever dreamt of having tea with a princess? You can come close to it as two party princess performers spill the tea about the good and the bad of being party royalty. From mishaps to favorite stories to advice, we've got it all. If you ever wanted to know about the people behind your favorite characters at your kids birthday party, now is your chance!

Presenters

Jenny Pautke

Jenny is a performer who loves spreading magic and making people smile. She’s been a Party Princess for six years, entertaining at birthday parties, charity events, balls, immersive dining experiences, and more. When she’s not performing, Jenny keeps busy running the company’s... Read More →

Mandy Padilla

Mandy is an NYC born Puerto Rican actor, model, and undergraduate student of New York City College Of Technology studying Entertainment Technology, as well as a party princess performer. They have published research on the mechanics and aesthetics of the staging of 'Hamilton', which... Read More →

Saturday February 8, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am EST
Sutton Center

Panel

12:00pm EST

Entrepreneurship On Broadway - See Something Broken, Create A Solution & Build A New Company

Saturday February 8, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST

Sutton Center

Join us for a discussion with several of Broadway's leading entrepreneurs. Come learn from the people who see opportunities for fixing what is missing from the industry as they talk about creating new solutions that make the biz continue to evolve and grow.

Presenters

Tim Dolan

Tim moved to the Big Apple shortly after graduating high school to pursue a career in the arts. On the small screen, Tim was featured on Season Two of HBO's Boardwalk Empire. Onstage, Tim was the Dance Captain in the Off-Broadway revival of Once Upon A Mattress starring Jackie Hoffman... Read More →

Matthew Stern

MATTHEW AARON STERN: founder of the Broadway Stage Management Symposium, the annual conference for stage managers & co-founder of Event Training Academy, an online course for event stage managers. Broadway Stage Management credits include: Come From Away, Finding Neverland, On The... Read More →

Nicole Johnson

Nicole Javanna Johnson is Founder & Creative Director of the Harriet Tubman Effect Institute www.harriettubmaneffect.com, a human resource center and institute of research and strategy for justice advocacy. The institute seeks to usher in a new era of empathy by producing empathy... Read More →

Hugh Hysell

HUGH HYSELL is a multi-hyphenate theatre professional: Broadway Producer (2 Tonys), Marketer (over 200 Broadway & Off Broadway shows, Open Jar Studios, BWAY Headshots, Stage Door Network, Groupon, NYU Skirball + more), educator (currently UNC Greensboro and runs the PRO Masterclass... Read More →

Jeff Whiting

Jeff Whiting is an award-winning director, choreographer and producer with work on Broadway, TV/Film, and Concerts around the world. BROADWAY (Associate): Bullets Over Broadway, Scottsboro Boys, Hair, Young Frankenstein, Big Fish. CONCERTS: James Taylor Live at Carnegie Hall (with... Read More →

Donna Walker-Kuhne

Donna Walker-Kuhne is an award winning thought leader, writer and strategist for community engagement, audience development and social justice. She is President of Walker International Communications Group, a 30 year old boutique marketing and audience development consulting agency... Read More →

Saturday February 8, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Sutton Center

Panel

2:00pm EST

Do You Hear The People Sing? - Ensemble Singalong

Saturday February 8, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST

Sutton Center

Know every word to Broadway’s biggest group numbers but wish you had more voices? Join us for a high-energy and harmonious singalong of timeless classics and contemporary show tunes!

Presenters

Micah Schachet-Briskin

Micah Schachet-Briskin (MY-kuh SHACK-it-BRIS-kin) recently graduated with a B.A. in Musical Theatre. He’s a comedic genius, a writer, a chef, tap dancer, ukulele player, a baritone, and is currently looking for additional creative work. He’s also one half of Stagedoor Siblings... Read More →

Channa Schachet-Briskin

Channa Schachet-Briskin (HAH-nuh SHACK-it-BRIS-kin) holds a masters degree in Interactive Digital Media. Through her graphic design small business, Essbee Productions, she produces Broadway, Theatre Community, and Pop Culture-inspired pieces for t-shirts, prints, magnets, stickers... Read More →

Tori Sostre

Tori has attended all 10 years of Broadwaycon and is thrilled to be presenting for the first time. Tori is an NYC native, and a life long lover of Broadway and NYC history.

Saturday February 8, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST
Sutton Center

Interactive

3:15pm EST

Cosplay: How to Become Your Favourite Broadway Character

Saturday February 8, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm EST

Sutton Center

When your list of dream roles is too long to possibly ever play them all, what do you do? Let pro-cosplayer CosPayton introduce you to the wonderful world of cosplay, a hobby where you can dress up as your favorite characters any time you want. Learn all about planning, how to get the most bang for your buck, and a few anecdotes from CosPayton's time as a Broadway cosplayer.

Presenters

CosPayton

CosPayton is an award-winning self-taught cosplayer, photographer, and pattern maker with over a decade of cosplay and theatre experience under their belt. They've guested at various conventions and helped over 7000 cosplayers create their dream costumes. CosPayton prides themself... Read More →

Saturday February 8, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm EST
Sutton Center

Panel

4:30pm EST

This is the Life: An Introduction to New York's Indie Theater Scene

Saturday February 8, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST

Sutton Center

So you want to make theatre in New York, but don’t know where to start? Well, chances are it’ll be where even some of the biggest names on Broadway started: in New York’s incredibly active Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre scene.

Join members of the indie theatre community as they share their own experiences carving out a theatre career away from the lights of Broadway, separate from both the commercial and non-profit theatre worlds—though often while still having a foot in those worlds. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the NYC theatre community and insight on a feasible, accessible path to making theatre in NYC, without some of the more common barriers of entry.

Presenters

emily/BUBECK

emily/BUBECK is a Queer, Catholic, Appalachian theatre practitioner who facilitates the development and consumption of new works by traditionally underrepresented artists. She is drawn to projects that allow us to expand our ideas on how we tell stories and who those stories serve... Read More →

Paige Esterly

Paige Esterly is an NYC based playwright-producer-director. A grad of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dramatic Writing, Paige’s plays have been developed with Theater for the New City (NYC), The Space at Irondale (NYC), SERIALS (NYC), The Tank (NYC... Read More →

Cristina Angeles

Cristina Angeles is an Afrolatina director, writer, and theater maker whose mission is to create empathy and conversation by directing new plays, musicals, and socially conscious adaptations of classics that place people of color at the forefront. Today, Cristina is the Founding Artistic... Read More →

Kristin McCarthy Parker

Kristin McCarthy Parker is a New York-based director and producer whose work has been seen across the US, the UK and Australia. They are the Co-Founder of critically acclaimed comedy company Recent Cutbacks, with whom they’ve directed FLY YOU FOOLS, KEVIN!!!!!, NEXT DAY THRONES... Read More →

Michael Ortiz

Michael Ortiz (he/him) is a multi-hyphenate theater artist hailing from the state of Florida. He is one of the Co-Artistic Directors of the Brooklyn-based Breaking & Entering Theater Collective, and he currently produces and hosts SERIALS, a late-night episodic short play competition... Read More →

Kenjiro Lee

Kenjiro Lee is a Korean/Japanese-American playwright, puppeteer, director and occasional performer. He has had work produced through Pan Asian Rep, Paper Kraine Productions, The Fled Collective, and the Road Theatre Company in Los Angeles. He is an alum of the Under Construction 3... Read More →

Saturday February 8, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Sutton Center

Panel