Will Swenson
WILL SWENSON
Will Swenson received a Tony nomination for the revival of "Hair" and has also appeared on Broadway in “Lestat,” “110 in the Shade,” “Brooklyn” and most recently in the hit musical comedy “Disaster!” Off-Broadway, he recently appeared in John Guare's "Nantucket Sleigh Ride" at Lincoln Center and played the role of Stacee Jaxx in the musical “Rock of Ages” (but didn’t perform the role on Broadway because he was offered the starring role of Berger in the Broadway revival of “Hair.”) He has been seen as Sir Sagramore in “Camelot” at Lincoln Center and as Chris in the second national tour of “Miss Saigon.” He has a long relationship with the musical “Hair” - first playing the role of Berger in the Off-Broadway 40th Anniversary Concert of Hair opposite Karen Olivo. Next, in 2008, Swenson was again cast as Berger in The Public Theater's revival of the show in Central Park. He then went on to reprise the role when the production moved to Broadway in March 2009, for which he received critical acclaim and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. Not finished yet - he played the role of Berger again in the West End revival of Hair which began performances in spring of 2010. Swenson also appeared as in the guest cameo slot for the extension performance of Katie Thompson's “R.R.R.E.D.: A Secret Musical,” in the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival. He also starred in the North American company of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." In October 2013, Swenson was cast as Inspector Javert in the 2014 Broadway revival of Les Misérables, which opened in March 2014 at New York's Imperial Theatre, where the musical had previously run for 13 years.