Aaron Lazar
Mr. Lazar garnered critical acclaim for his performance as 'Enjolras', the leader of the student revolutionaries, in the 2006 Broadway revival of Les Miserables, earning a 2007 Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. Other Broadway/West End credits include: ‘Fabrizio Nacarelli’ in Lincoln Center's Tony Award winning production of The Light in the Piazza, a role he also played on PBS' Live from Lincoln Center broadcast; the Broadway revival of Oklahoma!; The Phantom of the Opera; the Broadway national tour of The Scarlet Pimpernel; and 'Gabey' in the historic 2005 production of On The Town at the English National Opera. This fall Mr. Lazar will create the role of Charles Darnay in the new Broadway musical of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.
Symphonic and concert appearances include: guest soloist with Marvin Hamlisch and The National Symphony Orchestra; ‘Billy Bigelow’ in Carousel in concert with Keith Lockhart & The Boston Pops; guest soloist with The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall; the role of ‘Adam/Silva’ in a televised concert of the Broadway-bound musical Imagine This at the base of Masada in Israel; and ‘Lt. Cable’ in South Pacific with Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell at The Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles.
Film and Television credits include: nearly a dozen short films; The Notorious Bettie Page; New Amsterdam; Guiding Light; The Food Network Caters Your Wedding. BA Duke University. MFA Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
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