BroadwayCon 2025

NYSELI VEGA (Millie/Ensemble/u/s Jersey) is a Dominican-American multi hyphenate artist based in NYC making her Broadway debut in HELL'S KITCHEN!! Some proud credits include: working with John Leguizamo on undisclosed new works (The Public.) Torched! (PRTT- Off-Broadway), BATSU! (Japanese... Read More →

David Rimmer is a lifelong theater buff, with a passion for musical theater. He is thrilled to be moderating at BroadwayCon for the third consecutive year and to be collaborating with such talented performers. David is especially pleased to be recognizing renowned casting director... Read More →

STEPHEN DeANGELIS (he/him/His) created AT THIS PERFORMANCE...in order to produce a greater appreciation of the talents and versatility of Standbys, Understudies and Alternates so they can achieve the recognition and respect they deserve. Since October 2003, he has showcased over 1250... Read More →

Chessa Metz is a NYC-based actor and singer/songwriter, who made her Broadway Debut in the musical Suffs. Chessa was a swing and u/s for Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Doris Stevens in Shaina Taub’s Suffs at the Music Box Theatre. She is also recording her first full-length album of... Read More →

David Henry Hwang’s works include M. Butterfly, Yellow Face (recently revived on Broadway), Soft Power, Aida, Chinglish, and Flower Drum Song, as well as thirteen opera libretti; Ainadamar (music by Osvaldo Golijov) made its Metropolitan Opera debut in Fall 2024. A professor at... Read More →

David Adjmi was awarded the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle Award, Drama League and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Stereophonic. He is also the fortunate recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Mellon Foundation grant, the Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Steinberg... Read More →

Charles Kirsch is the 17-year-old host of the theater podcast Backstage Babble, which has presented over 200 in-depth interviews with theater legends such as Lin-Manuel Miranda, Carol Burnett, and Kelli O'Hara. Kirsch has also hosted game night benefits for the non-profit organization... Read More →

Craig Lucas wrote the plays Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, The Dying Gaul, Ode to Joy (among many others). His screenplays include Longtime Companion (Audience Award/Sundance) and The Secret Lives of Dentists (NY Film Critics Best Screenplay). His musicals include The Light... Read More →

DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE is a playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, and librettist. Broadway: Kimberly Akimbo with composer Jeanine Tesori (five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score); Rabbit Hole (Pulitzer Prize for Drama); Good People (NY Drama Critics Circle Award... Read More →

Broadway credits include Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes (Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Play), I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award and others), War Paint, Hands on a Hardbody (Drama De

Jen Silverman is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Plays include: Spain; Highway Patrol; Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties; The Moors; and Witch. Silverman’s plays have been produced off-Broadway (Second Stage Theatre, MCC Theater, The Playwrights Realm), across the US... Read More →