Age & Hometown: 31; Chapel Hill, NC. “Go Heels!”

Current Role: Stealing the show as Arielle, the sexually adventurous talent booker for Brooklyn Bowl, in off-Broadway’s F#%king Up Everything.

Part of Her World: When Lisa Birnbaum steps on stage at the Elektra Theatre, the new rock musical F#%king Up Everything becomes a little more electric. Her character is ...

Age & Hometown: 30; Honolulu, Hawaii

Current Role: Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos, whose catapult to stardom and subsequent fall into infamy are chronicled in the Public Theater’s groundbreaking new musical Here Lies Love.

Monster of a Show: When audience members dance around the stage in Here Lies Love, there’s one person they can’t take their eyes off ...

Age and Hometown: 41; Stockholm, Sweden

Current Role: Bringing the Music of the Night to the Majestic Theatre as Broadway’s newest masked man in The Phantom of the Opera.

My Favorite Things: Born and raised in “the cleanest city on earth,” Joback raves that Stockholm is “romantic, cultural” and “open-minded.” Early on, he fell in love with movie musicals ...

Age and Hometown: 27; London

Current Role: A Broadway debut as Phillip, the housebound brother who forms a bond with a mysterious father figure (Alec Baldwin) in Orphans.

In the Blood: The son and the grandson of celebrated British actors, Sturridge made his professional debut at 11 in a Gulliver’s Travels miniseries directed by his father, Charles, and co-starring ...

Age & Hometown: 27; Cheshire, CT

Current Role: A Broadway debut as Ned, a drifter turned burlesque performer who falls unapologetically in love with Chauncey Miles (Nathan Lane) in Lincoln Center Theater's production of The Nance.

Once Upon a Time: When Broadway newcomer Jonny Orsini enrolled at Suffolk University, his interest in storytelling led him to major in journalism. He ...

Age & Hometown: 22; Highland Park, Illinois

Current Role: Stirring up trouble for Bobby Cannavale as Dixie Evans, a struggling Hollywood starlet who knows too much in Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’ The Big Knife.

Broadway Baby: Rachel Brosnahan’s red-hot career took a theatrical turn when she was tapped to make her Broadway debut in the ...

Age & Hometown: 31; Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Current Role: Breaking down opposite Tom Hanks as Abner Louima—a Haitian immigrant whose brutal assault by police earned national attention in 1997—in Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy.

Mock Trial and Error: Thanks to a childhood spent watching crime procedurals with his grandmother, Southern gentleman Stephen Tyrone Williams pictured a future for himself in ...

Age & Hometown: 25 (“I’m a Pisces!”), Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England

Current Role: Finding his corner of the sky as the ambitious title prince in the new circus-inspired revival of Pippin.

Great Adventure: Growing up in a small town outside of London, Matthew James Thomas spent his early days “climbing up drainpipes, running through endless fields and exploring old ruins.” An ...

Age & Hometown: 35; London, England

Current Role: A transformative performance as Miss Agatha Trunchbull, the fearsome, hammer-throwing, grotesque headmistress of Crunchem Hall in Matilda.

Rehearsing in the Playground: Growing up in London, Carvel never had any schoolteachers as menacing as the one he portrays on stage. “I certainly wouldn’t point a crooked finger at any one person,” he says ...

Age & Hometown: 37; Laie, HI

Current Role: An inspiring performance as Norma Valverde, who relies on her faith in the Lord to win a new pickup truck in Hands on a Hardbody.

Aloha! Growing up in Oahu as the oldest daughter of a British father and Polynesian mother, Settle considered her home island a personal playground. “We weren’t wearing ...