Broadway BUZZ

(Gizel Jiménez
Photo c/o Polk and Co.) First ethnic actor to portray Kate Monster in Avenue Q. Critically acclaimed at The Public in Miss You Like Hell (Drama Desk nomination). NY Times hailed her as “eye-opening” with “youthful loveliness and a blue-sky voice.” Starred last summer at NYS&F in Alice by Heart; for Lin-Manuel Miranda in Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…BOOM!; at Williamstown in Marsha Norman’s Secret Soldiers. TV: “Law & Order SVU,” HBO’s “Divorced.” Off-Broadway: Big River (Encores!), Party People (The Public). National tour: West Side Story.