Broadway BUZZ

Jimmy Smagula will next be seen in Warner Brothers’ highly anticipated sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux directed by Todd Phillips, and the independent features Nonnas directed by Stephen Chbosky and Almost Popular directed by Nayip Ramos. He just finished production on the animated feature Animal Friends, directed by Peter Atencio and recurred on both Showtime’s Black Monday and MAX’s Doom Patrol. Aside from Spamalot, other Kennedy Center productions include The Music Man (Jacey Squires) with Norm Lewis, Jessie Mueller, and Rosie O'Donnell and Guys and Dolls (Harry the Horse) opposite Rachel Dratch. He is remembered for his role of ‘Sal Iacuzzo’ on The Sopranos and depicted publisher John Woodburn in Danny Strong’s Rebel in the Rye opposite Nicholas Hoult. He also held supporting roles in Michael Bay’s The Island, John Chu’s Step Up 3 and The Producers movie musical. Other television credits include: FX’s Cake; FX’s Oh Jerome No, opposite Emmy Award nominee Mamoudou Athie, directed and written by Alex Karpovsky; Brooklyn Nine-Nine, opposite Andy Sandberg; Better Things alongside Pamela Adlon; Comedy Central's Corporate; Grey’s Anatomy, Bones, Parks and Rec, Community and many more. Jimmy made his Broadway debut at age 24 in the original Broadway cast of The Full Monty, and went on to star on Broadway in Man of La Mancha, The Phantom of the Opera, To Be Or Not To Be (Manhattan Theatre Club), Damn Yankees (with Sean Hayes and Jane Krakowski), The Little Mermaid and Billy Elliott. He is repped by Lasher Group and Nicolosi & Co.