Built For The Stage Podcast

JORDAN DOBSON / @jordandobson (Prince Sebastian). Broadway: Hadestown (Orpheus), A Beautiful Noise (Shilo, OBC), West Side Story directed by Ivo Van Hove (Tony). Select regional: Austen’s Pride, Into the Woods (ACT of Connecticut); The Wanderer (Paper Mill Playhouse); Cabaret, Gypsy (Arden Theatre Co.); The Color Purple (Theatre Horizon). Upcoming film: William in Netflix’s Maestro directed by Bradley Cooper. Much love to his incredible family and Dave at Creative Talent Company! https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Shen / @_kshen Kevin Shen is an Asian-American and British East Asian actor currently appearing as Mr. Okamoto in LIFE OF PI on London's West End. Originally from Orange County, California, Kevin has worked as an actor in London and Los Angeles for the past twelve years. Prior to becoming an actor, Kevin studied Computer Systems Engineering and Sociology at Stanford University and received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, before working in the corporate world in New York City and London. He began his acting career in London by producing and starring in the UK Premiere of David Henry Hwang's Pulitzer Prize Finalist play YELLOW FACE, which opened north London's Park Theatre and subsequently transferred into the National Theatre. He was also part of the first ever all-East Asian cast at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Recent television credits include Industry (HBO), Devils (The CW), and the upcoming Litvinenko (ITV). He can also be seen as King Tai in the third installment

Gabrielle Mariella / @gabriellmariella is a graduate of NYU Tisch where she received her BFA in Drama from the New Studio on Broadway for Musical Theatre. She has performed regionally, as well as in NYC in pre-Broadway and Off-Broadway workshops, labs, & staged readings of new musical theatre (Almost Famous, The Visitor, etc.). Gab has recently gained recognition for her vocal impressions online, with her viral videos garnering more than 6 Million views. ( TikTok, IG) She is also a successful voice actor, lending her voice to various commercial projects (Walmart, TD Bank and more.) Behind the camera, Gab is a Sony Alpha Female+ Grant Winning Cinematographer, winning a grant from Sony in 2021 with which she filmed and directed ENOUGH, a documentary short film about female Broadway creatives. She has served as the DP on over ten new series on Broadstream, Prospect Theater’s Company’s Vision Series of New Musical Theatre on Film, brand films (Harridan Vodka, Chelsea Table + Stage, The Broadway Sinfonietta) and m

Georgia Tapp / @georgiatapp is a US native who currently is performing on the West End in Back to the Future the Musical in London. Training: The Boston Conservatory of Music UK Theatre Credits: u/s Cinderella in Cinderella (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Carmen Diaz in Fame (UK Tour/Troubadour Wembley Park) US Theatre Credits: u/s Ellen in Miss Saigon (Diablo Light Opera); Olive Ostrovsky in 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Ellie in Some Enchanted Evening (Cape Playhouse); Kathy Seldon in Singin’ in the Rain, Natalie in All Shook Up and Jill in Equus (Forestburgh Playhouse). Other: Lead Vocalist for Celebrity Cruise Lines & Aida Cruise Lines. Georgia would like to thank her family and friends for their continuous love and support! https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Rosko / @builtforthestage gives away $400 worth of coaching and swag in this episode as he speaks about the power of starting regardless of feeling unprepared. https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carl Man / @carlmanofficial - Theatre credits include: understudy Fiyero in Wicked (Apollo Victoria), Rory in Proud (Turbine Theatre), Nintendo in Starlight Express (The Other Palace), Aladdin in Disney’s Aladdin (USA), understudy Galileo in We Will Rock You (RCCL), Tiger Bay The Musical (Wales Millennium Centre), The Who’s Tommy (USA). Workshops include: Dezza in Great British Bake Off The Musical, David in If/Then. Other work includes: Voice of Joseph The Boy Scientist in Cosmic Rhapsody (Animated Film), The West End Men (Park Theatre), Kings Of Broadway (Palace Theatre), Unlimited: The Songs Of Stephen Schwartz (Thespie), Christmas on Ice (USA and Canada). https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Delany / @_lauradelany - SWING / ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN (SHE/HER) TRAINING: Royal Academy of Music. THEATRE CREDITS INCLUDE: Sex With Friends, Don’t Say Macbeth (Edinburgh Fringe); Merrily We Roll Along (Royal Academy of Music); Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends: A Celebration (Sondheim); Maria Friedman & Friends – Legacy (Menier Chocolate Factory); Treason the Musical (Workshop); The Emperor’s New Clothes (American Repertory, USA). https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ricardo Castro / @rico_castro was last seen in London on the West End in Come From Away and is now touring the US playing the role of Heathcliff in the in "Wuthering Heights"! https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Rosko / @builtforthestage discusses how the time you establish your worth is not when in a show but while in the waiting. He also goes over blockades that people struggle with that deter them from the ability to give themselves a chance to succeed. Joe Rosko began his professional career as a trainer and actor at the exact same time in 2007. Since then, it has been his mission to build a bridge between the worlds of fitness and theatre. Rosko believed that actors were truly professional athletes but didn't feel as though the theatre community was equipped with the proper resources to train like said athletes. This realization led to the creation of Built for the Stage. Over the years, BFTS has had clients represented in over fifty Broadway shows, as well as stages on the West End in London, Australia, and other countries around the world. Rosko prides himself in having the unique abilities to continue a performer’s fitness progress while in the midst of being in or out of a show. All professional athlete

Rodney Vubya / @rodneyvubya is currently in the cast of Frozen and certainly no stranger to the stages of the West End! Cinderella The Musical [West End] World Premiere Adaptation, 2022 Ensemble The Book of Mormon [West End] Original West End Production, 2021 Ensemble [Replacement] Tina - The Tina Turner Musical [West End] Original West End Production, 2021 Performer (Swing) Evita [West End] Regent's Park Open Air Theatre London Revival, 2019 Ensemble https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tavio Wright / @tavio_wright can be seen starring in Back to the Future on the West End! Training: Arts Educational School. Stage Credits: Swing in Back to the Future (Adelphi Theatre); Booker T. Washington in Ragtime (ArtsEd); Skimbleshanks in Cats (ArtsEd). https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Bowen / @tombowen91 was recently seen in GET UP STAND UP, the Bob Marley musical, on the West End as DOCTOR, CHRIS BLACKWELL U/S. Training: Tiffany Theatre College Theatre Credits: Dirty Dancing (UK Tour), Privates on Parade and Opening Up (Union Theatre), and Mamma Mia (Novello Theatre). Film Credits: Rogue Trader Television Credits: David Lee Roth in Breakup Of The Bands, Jack in Bail and Policeman in Call The Midwife. https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cameron Bernard Jones / @cbjarts is set to be seen next on the West End in Ain't Too Proud! Cameron Bernard Jones is a London-based performing artist, voice actor and accent coach originally from New York City. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Voice & Opera Performance at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, located in Chicago, USA. While at Northwestern he also studied musical theatre, German, Italian, and linguistics. Professionally, Cameron has performed in the spheres of musical theatre, opera and choral singing. Major credits include: Porgy & Bess (Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen; Spoleto Festival, USA), Showboat (Landestheater Linz), Hairspray (Bühne Baden, Austria), Motown the Musical (West End), and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (West End). As a voice actor Cameron has done voiceover work mainly for TV and film post-production. Projects include: Black Mirror season 5 episode 1 “Striking Vipers” (Netflix), Avenue 5 (HBO), the new 2019 Aladdin film, and the film Show Dogs. Cameron began

Isabella Glanznig / @isabella.glanznig is half Austrian, half Filipino, born in the Philippines, raised in Nigeria, then Malaysia, all while going to an American international school. She now finds herself in this magical place called Arendelle since joining the cast of Frozen in the West End! You can see Isabella in the ensemble on most nights, but during others, as Bulda and Queen Iduna when she fulfills her role as the understudy. https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny Mahoney / @dannymahoney1 grew up in small-town Ontario and began acting at an early age. He made his professional debut at the age of 13 playing Louis in The King And I. He went on to study drama and psychology at Queen’s University before training at LAMDA in the UK. He has lived in London for 13 years and has recently obtained his British citizenship. Film credits include The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Love Will Take Over, and Florence Foster Jenkins. He received an Indie Series Award nomination last year for Best Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in Purgatory. He has performed both on and off London’s West End as well as internationally. His most recent theatre credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, White Fang, Afterglow, and he is currently performing in the Olivier Award winning production of Cabaret as Ernst Ludwig. https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad cho

Jamie Bogyo / @JamieBogyo recently concluded his time on the West End in Moulin Rouge playing the lead role of Christian. Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. As Playwright and Screenwriter: Safe Space (RADA Festival – London production in 2022); Macho; Intimacy, Fantasy and Pornography; and The Great Whitehopes. Jamie is proud to be making his professional debut in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Michael Fiumara / @john7michael is currently tearing up the stage with his taps in FUNNY GIRL on Broadway. From John Michael via Bloc Agency: I was born and raised in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania! I grew up as a dance competition kid, which is what got me into dancing in front of audiences. It allowed me to become more comfortable, and confident in front of them as well. My first inspiration for dance came from watching the classics, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, and Sammy Davis Jr. Those men were the reason why I went to a dance studio in the first place. My dance studio’s name was the Abby Lee Dance Company, which is where I received most of my dance training, along with dance conventions like NYCDA, JUMP, NUVO, etc. I started out as more of a tap dancer, but realized how important ballet was once I had started doing the Youth American Grand Prix competitions. That’s what really helped contribute to my technique. https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www

Maya Britto / @mayabritto_ is a standby for all three of the Schuyler sisters in the West End production of HAMILTON. Theatre: The Magician's Elephant (RSC); Tokyo Rose (UK Tour/Edinburgh Fringe Festival/NDI); Beyond the Circle (workshop, National Theatre); Becoming Angela (workshop, National Theatre); Arabian Nights (Hoxton Hall). Hamilton marks Maya's West End debut. TV: "British Airways 100"; "Someone You Thought You Knew" (season 2). Recording: Tokyo Rose Original Cast Album (Burnt Lemon Theatre); Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (Alfonso Casado/Arturo Cardelús). How did you get into acting, was there a particular performance you saw that resonated with you? I remember going to the theatre for the first time to see THE LION KING when I was about 10, and couldn’t believe how fun it all looked to be a part of. It seemed so unreachable to be where they were, but still I never forgot that feeling. It wasn’t until I was 16 doing a school production of West Side Story in Nepal did it occur to me that s

Joaquin Pedro Valdes / @joaquin.pedro.valdes is a Filipino actor living in the United Kingdom. He started his career at a very young age in the Philippines and has extensively worked in the TV, Concert, Film and Theatre industries in Manila. Some of his work includes Manila premiere productions of INTO THE WOODS, SPRING AWAKENING, KINKY BOOTS, MATILDA, VANYA, SONIA, MASHA & SPIKE, and John Logan's RED. Since moving to the UK, Joaquin has done UK tours of MISS SAIGON and THE KING & I. More recently, he has been seen in FANNY & STELLA - THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY (London), VANARA THE MUSICAL (Hackney Empire), and HEATHERS THE MUSICAL (West End). Currently, he is wrapping up a major UK and International Tour of DISNEY's THE LION KING covering SIMBA. https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anika Larsen has performed on Broadway in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Avenue Q, Xanadu, All Shook Up and Rent. Off-Broadway, she was in Zanna, Don’t!, Myths and Hymns, Closer Than Ever, Miracle Brothers, How to Save the World…, Disaster! and Unbroken Circle. Anika is from Cambridge, MA with nine brothers and sisters of different ethnicities and countries. See her now in Almost Famous! https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices