Broadway Corner with Ashley Ha

Jaedynn is a Filipina-American actress from Huntington Beach, CA, who graduated from the Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre program in the spring of 2025. She is currently playing Eponine on the national tour of Les Misérables. Jaedynn is also a self-produced music artist, and her debut album was released in October of 2024. Her new single, GUILTY PLEASURE, is out now on every major platform. Ashley Ha...

Kelvin Co made his regional debut with Center Theatre Group in the ensemble of the entirely Filipino Here Lies Love! Previous Credits include: Cabaret (Bobby/Dance Captain), 9 To 5 (Tinsworthy/ Ensemble). He also performs under Disney Live Entertainment at the Disneyland Resort and dances with multiple hip-hop companies throughout Southern California. Ashley Ha is a Taiwanese American performer, c...

Matt is currently playing Mitch Mahony in the Off-Broadway Revival of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, but you’ve also seen Matt on Broadway in Ain’t Too Proud, on Tour with Girl from the North Country, Motown the Musical, and May We All, and on TV in “Only Murders in the Building.” Ashley Ha is a Taiwanese American performer, content creator, and activist. She is most known as the foun...

Nico Ochoa is New York City's fresh-faced, Virginia-born and raised performer. They hope to use their art to represent and uplift the voices of queer and BIPOC communities through multiple art forms, including but not limited to singing, dancing, acting, drag, music, and more. Proud to be a genderfluid and mixed race performer, being half Filipino and half Colombian, they live on the crossroad...

Leana Rae Concepcion is a first-generation Filipina-American actor and singer. Leana was born and raised in California and relocated to New York City to attend Pace University, where she graduated in 2019 with her BFA in Musical Theatre. She was an original cast member of the Tony Award-winning revival of Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway, Off-Broadway, & appeared in the film! She’s currently...

Ins Choi was born in Korea but grew up and currently lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and two children. His debut play, Kim’s Convenience, won the Best New Play Award and the Patron’s Pick at the 2011 Toronto Fringe festival. It then launched Soulpepper Theatre Company’s 2012 season, toured across Canada, and was adapted into a TV series of the same name with Thunderbird Entertainment on CB...

Keiji Ishiguri is an actor-musician, singer, multi-instrumentalist, music director, arranger, orchestrator, and teacher. He is making his SpeakEasy debut as Trevor in Lizard Boy, but he was also recently seen making his Broadway debut in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club. A few select regional and tour credits include The Hello Girls, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Cabaret, and Spring Awakening. Keiji is al...

Mfoniso Udofia is a Nigerian-American storyteller, actor, and educator whose work centers on Nigerian immigrant life within the United States. Celebrated and well-known works from Udofia include: Sojourners, Her Portmanteau, runboyrun, and In Old Age — all plays from within her projected nine-play Ufot Cycle. She also works in film/television as a writer-producer on shows like Little America, Pach...

Marcus Choi is returning to Broadway as James/준서 in Maybe Happy Ending. He most recently played the role of “George Washington” in Hamilton on the Philip tour. His Broadway credits include original companies of Wicked, Flower Drum Song, Allegiance, and The Times They Are A Changin. He’s also appeared in the revivals of Miss Saigon and Sweet Charity, starring Christina Applegate. Ashley Ha is a 2...

Crystin Gilmore returns to SpeakEasy as Bea in Jaja's African Hair Braiding having previously appeared as Shug Avery in The Color Purple (a role for which she won an IRNE Award & Arts Impulse Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical), and as Headmistress Frances in School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (for which she shared a 2020 Elliot Norton Award Best Ensemble nomination). Wh...

Jeffrey Seller is one of the most successful American producers of our time. He produced the Tony Award–winning musicals Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights, and Hamilton. His shows have garnered twenty-two Tony Awards, including four for Best Musical, and his Broadway productions and tours have grossed over $4.6 billion and reached more than 43 million attendees. Jeffrey is the only producer to have m...

Sam Simahk is an actor/singer/musician/writer based in New York City. He is returning to SpeakEasy in A Man of No Importance after appearing in Big Fish and Small Mouth Sounds. A few other Boston credits are Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Sondheim on Sondheim, and She Loves Me. His Broadway credits include Into the Woods and Carousel. And, he’s been in the National Tours Into the Woods, My Fair Lad...

Claire Kwon joined the cast of Maybe Happy Ending this year as a vacation standby for Claire. She was in the original cast of Almost Famous on Broadway as a swing and was most recently performing off-Broadway in Teeth. She is also a Northwestern University graduate. Ashley Ha is a 19-year-old Taiwanese American performer, content creator, and activist. She is most known as the founder of the widel...

Grant Evan is returning to SpeakEasy Stage and The Porch, having appeared in last season’s co-production of A Strange Loop. They most recently appeared in The Wiz and Off-Broadway in Little Shop of Horrors. Other credits include Five Guys Named Moe, The Baker’s Wife, Scouts, Songs for A New World, Lilies, and the Revival of a Romantic Drama. Ashley Ha is a 19-year-old Taiwanese American performer,...

Steven Huynh is making his Broadway debut with Maybe Happy Ending as the standby for James and Oliver. He is a New York City-based actor originally from Amherst, Ohio. He attended Baldwin Wallace University earning his Bachelor of Music in Music Theatre. Most recently, he was Wendell Porcupine in the Chicago production of Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas at the Studebaker Theater. He’s also appear...

Daniel May is returning to Broadway after many years away in Maybe Happy Ending. Daniel made his Broadway debut in the 2002 revival of Flower Drum Song starring Lea Salonga and has been working as a theater artist his whole life. Most recently Daniel played the lead role of “Xūe Xíng” in a newly envisioned production of David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori’s Soft Power at Signature Theatre and has...

Hannah Kevitt is a China-born, North Carolina-raised actor, singer, and dancer. She grew up in the tractor-loving small town of Hickory, North Carolina. Uncertain about whether college was the right choice for her, Hannah Kevitt dove straight into theatre after high school, performing regionally in the Southeast while also working towards an associate’s degree. Hannah then attended Elon University...

De’Lon Grant is an actor, singer, writer, and photographer. He spent five years performing on Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated hit musical Come From Away as Bob and three years touring domestically and internationally as Berry Belson in the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. He also co-hosts the podcast Lemme Fix It. It’s described as a trip down memory lane, followed by a hilarious rebra...

A multi-instrumentalist and performer, Christopher James Tamayo is making his Broadway debut with Maybe Happy Ending as the standby for Gil & Oliver. He recently concluded his time with the North American tour of Les Misérables, playing the role of “Montparnasse” and understudying “Marius” for 2 years. Christopher is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan B.F.A Musical Theatre program,...

Evan is a classically trained, award-winning Canadian-American actor and voice-over artist. He was born and raised in Toronto, where he studied at George Brown Theatre School before starring in the original Canadian company of The Toxic Avenger Musical. His performance earned him a Dora Award Nomination, and he won a Gemini Award for his contributions to a documentary that followed the show’s jour...

Aaron Tolson started dancing at the age of ten in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Four years into his dance career he was performing in the Great Tap Reunion at the Apollo Theater alongside tap legends Derick Grant, Savion Glover, Gregory Hines, and the cast of the movie "Tap." Soon after, Tolson met Julia Boynton in Boston, who guided him in the direction of tap as a lifestyle. Tolson accepted a role in...

(caption by Mapping The College Audition) In this Artist Exploration, we have a special crossover episode with MTCA Alum, current BoCo MT, and the host of Broadway Corner Podcast, Ashley Ha! Ashley and Charlie discuss: • Summer Programs and the insight they can provide towards collegiate life • Parental support through the audition experience • How to narrow down acceptance • What is BoCo like fro...

Angelo is a proud, Tagalog-speaking native “Child of The Philippines.” He was most recently seen as a swing in the original Broadway cast of Here Lies Love on Broadway. Before that, he performed in Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway as a swing and understudy since 2015. He was honored in a New York Times Magazine feature called “A Star Is Made” as a dedicated Broadway swing and understudy. You can catch...

Julia made her Broadway debut last year in KPOP originating the role of Sonoma, and just finished her second Broadway show, Here Lies Love originating Dovie Beams and appearing in the ensemble. She’s appeared Off-Broadway in Superhero and in the West End in Miss Saigon where she was an understudy for Kim, but she’s also performed a lot in Asia. In Singapore, she was in Next to Normal and Spring Aw...

Ramone Owens joined Boston Conservatory in 2020 and is an assistant professor of theater specializing in musical theater and jazz dance. Prior to the Conservatory, Owens served on the faculty of the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, Long Island University, and was a guest instructor at the American Music and Dramatic Academy’s High School Summer Conservatory. He has been an associate choreo...