Jessica-Snow Wilson to Join Broadway Company of Spelling Bee 9/19

Jessica-Snow Wilson will assume the role of shy Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee when original cast member Celia Keenan-Bolger departs the production for Les Miserables. Wilson will start on Tuesday, September 19 in the hit musical at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

Wilson was last seen on Broadway in the Beach Boys musical Good Vibrations. Prior to that, she was seen in Little Shop of Horrors, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and as Eponine in Les Miserables, the same role Keenan-Bolger is departing Spelling Bee to play. Off-Broadway, Wilson's appeared in Me and Juliet, I Sing, Zombie Prom and Nerds. She is currently in rehearsals for the off-Broadway play Wasps in Bed, which starts at the Beckett Theatre on September 5. She will now depart the production early, playing her final performance September 17.

In The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser. The tuner was nominated for six 2005 Tony Awards including a nod for Best Musical and for Keenan-Bolger's performance as Olive.

Also currently featured in the cast are Derrick Baskin as Mitch Mahoney, Deborah S. Craig as Marcy Park, Barrett Foa as Leaf Coneybear, Josh Gad as William Barfee, Lisa Howard as Rona Lisa Peretti, Jose Llana as Chip Tolentino, Sarah Saltzberg as Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre and Greg Stuhr as Douglas Panch.