Broadway BUZZ

Skylar Astin originated the role of Georg in Tony and Grammy Award winning musical Spring Awakening. Astin was recently onstage in The Kennedy Center's production of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s God Bless You Mr. Rosewater at Encores! Off-Center at New York City Center and starred as Tony in Carnegie Hall’s special production of West Side Story at the Knockdown Center. He returned to off-Broadway in WP Theater's What We're Up Against. In film, Astin is best known for his break out role as Jesse in Universal’s Pitch Perfect and sequel Pitch Perfect 2. Other film credits include: Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, Sundance favorite Hamlet 2, Disney’s award winning animated feature, Wreck-It Ralph, and starring opposite Miles Teller in 21 and Over. Astin will next appear in Eric Bress’s Ghosts of War and the feature film Hot Air. He can currently be seen opposite Nick Nolte in the Epix TV series Graves. Previous television credits include the lead in sitcom Ground Floor, created by Bill Lawrence, and memorable roles on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Girls, House M.D., Glee, and Halt and Catch Fire.