Spring Awakening Tickets

Alexandria Wailes (she/her) received a 2020 Obie Citation for Sustained Excellence as an Artist and Advocate and a Lortel nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play For Colored Girls.. at The Public. Broadway: Deaf West’s Spring Awakening, Big River (Tony Honoree for Ensemble). Off Broadway: Playwright Horizon’s I Was Most Alive with You, A Kind Of Alaska, Film: The Hyperglot; TV: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, High Maintenance, Little America, Nurse Jackie. Alexandria is an actor, director, dancer, choreographer, and director of artistic sign language. She has worked on stage, in front of the camera and behind the scenes on numerous on and off Broadway and regional theatres, television and film. She worked with Deaf West Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Playwrights Horizon, The Public, Pasadena Playhouse, City Center NY, Ars Nova and more. As director of artistic sign language, she worked on the revival of Broadway’s Children of a Lesser God and King Lear; This Close S.1 & 2, Quantico S.3, A Quiet Place 1 & 2, Wonderstruck and 2021’s Sundance Film Festival darling, CODA. Over the years she has worked as an advisor for ASL theatre interpreted teams for on and off Broadway with Hands On and TDF, as a teaching artist bringing theatre into classrooms, and is an educator at several museums in NYC- notably the Whitney Museum, The Jewish Museum, and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. She danced and performed with the Heidi Latsky Dance company. She is a co-founder of BHo5.org and a member of the Forest of Arden company. Ms. Wailes has spent many years advocating for Deaf and disability rights within the performing arts. She currently serves on the Dance/NYC disability taskforce. She received a Tony Honoree for Ensemble in the Deaf West revival of Big River along with numerous nominations and accolades. A proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA & the SDC.

Fans of NBC’s Smash may remember her as the high-flying diva Ana Vargas in the original television series. Krysta starred as Cinderella in the Broadway revival of Into the Woods and in The Collaboration for Manhattan Theatre Club. Most recently, she took on the role of Rosie Alvarez in the Kennedy Center/Broadway Center Stage production of Bye Bye Birdie. Rodriguez co-starred in the Emmy Award winning Netflix/Ryan Murphy limited series Halston as the iconic entertainer Liza Minnelli, which marked her return to the platform after starring in Daybreak with Matthew Broderick. Krysta’s long list of television roles include the NBC series Trial & Error and Smash. Other credits include recurring roles on Younger, Married, Gossip Girl, Quantico, Chasing Life, The Mysteries of Laura and Indoor Boys (Indie Series Award). Rodriguez’s theater résumé includes  Theresa Rebeck’s play Seared at MCC, in a role she originated at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, for which she was honored with an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance. Rodriguez took on the role of famous animated princess ‘Megara’ in Disney’s premiere stage adaptation Hercules as part of The Public Theater’s PublicWorks program. Broadway credits include: Ilse in the Deaf West revival of Spring Awakening; First Date and original companies of The Addams Family, In the Heights, Spring Awakening, A Chorus Line (Revival) and Good Vibrations. Other memorable turns include Anita in West Side Story at The Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra; What We’re Up Against at The Women’s Project; and a standout in the Hollywood Bowl production of A Chorus Line as ‘Diana’. 

Patrick Page received a Tony Award nomination and a Grammy Award for his work in Hadestown on Broadway, after starring as Hades in the off-Broadway, Citadel Theatre and National Theatre productions. Other Broadway: The Inquisitor in Saint Joan, Valentina in Casa Valentina, Buckley in Time to Kill, Adult Men in Spring Awakening, DeGuiche in Cyrano de Bergerac, Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons, Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar, Scar in The Lion King, The Grinch in Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, and Mackie in The Kentucky Cycle. Other New York: Cymbeline in Cymbeline (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte), Max in The Sound of Music (Carnegie Hall). Regional: Page created the roles of Dom Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Jolla Playhouse and Papermill Playhouse, and Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic in Rajiiv Joseph’s Archduke at the Mark Taper Forum. He is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe in San Diego (Cyrano, Malvolio), and the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C. (King Lear, Coriolanus, Prospero, Macbeth, Iago, Claudius). Film: Spirited for Apple+, In the Heights, Estella Scrooge, The Sixth Reel, I Am Michael. Television: Richard Clay on The Gilded Age for HBO, Octavius Ktratt on Schmigadoon, recurring on Elementary, Madam Secretary, Flesh and Bone and guest starring roles on Evil, NCIS: New Orleans, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, Chicago P.D., and Law and Order: S.V.U.

Russell Harvard most recently starred as Duke of Cornwall opposite Glenda Jackson in Sam Gold’s Broadway production of King Lear. He was also recently in I Was Most Alive with You at Playwrights Horizons, in a role Craig Lucas wrote specifically for him and earned him a Drama Desk nomination. He also starred in Pasadena Playhouse's Our Town, Open Circle’s The Who’s Tommy, and Deaf West's acclaimed Broadway revival of Spring Awakening. In 2012, he made his off-Broadway debut in Tribes, earning a Theatre World award and receiving Drama League, Outer Critics and Lucille Lortel Award nominations. He was featured in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2008 Oscar-nominated film, There Will Be Blood, and starred in The Hammer as the first deaf person to win a collegiate wrestling championship. Russell had a multi-season role on Fargo, a recurring role on ABC Family's Switched At Birth, and has guest starred on Odd Mom Out, Fringe, and CSI: NY.

In a milestone moment for Broadway and disability representation, Ali Stroker won a 2019 Tony Award for her performance as Ado Annie in Oklahoma! She is the first performer in a wheelchair to win or be nominated for a Tony Award. She has also been seen on Broadway in Deaf West's Spring Awakening. On screen, she is known for her appearance on The Glee Project. Her additional screen credits include Only Murders in the Building, Ozark, And Just Like That..., The Bold Type and more.

Max Wyse has appeared on Broadway in Waitress, Deaf West’s Spring Awakening, and Lysistrata Jones, on tour in Wicked, and off-Broadway in the original casts of Ride the Cyclone, Bare (revival), Triassic Parq, and Lysistrata Jones. Regionally he has worked at Hartford Stage, Wallis Annenberg, Paper Mill Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Maltz Jupiter, Huntington, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, and more. TV credits include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Other Two, Iron Fist, Masters of Sex, NCIS: LA, The Bold and the Beautiful, Switched at Birth, Modern Family, Agent X, A to Z, Bad Judge, and Bored to Death, and his film credits include X/Y and Dating My Mother. He was a co-producer on What the Constitution Means to Me. As a creator, he was co-writer/star of off-Broadway’s A Commercial Jingle For Regina Comet, co-creator/star of the Emmy-nominated Indoor Boys, and co-director/writer of the upcoming feature film, Summoning Sylvia. He received his BFA from Boston University.

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Arden is best known for playing Tom Sawyer in Big River, a role for which he won a Tony Award Honor for Excellence in Theatre.

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