Dreading The Boards

Bret Shuford and Stephen Hanna are the Broadway Husbands--openly LGBTQ married working actors, performers, and BroadwayLife coaches. Bret has performed, produced, choreographed and directed dozens of Broadway, Regional, National tours, viral videos, television and film productions from Wicked to the Wolf of Wall Street. His industry insights have been featured in leading outlets li

Born in Puerto Rico to a Cuban mom and Mexican dad, Paco was inspired to be an actor after an episode of The Wonder Years where Winnie Cooper plays the lead in “Our Town”, and he hasn’t really looked back since. With a resume that includes costars like Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Morgan Freeman, Hamish Linklater, Julianna Margulies, Ice-T, Pedro Pascal, Tea Leoni, Dave Bautist

Hailed by LA Weekly as a “force of nature”, soprano and Fat Politics artist-activist Tracy Cox is a performer whose talent has been recognized across the industry, garnering her a Sullivan Foundation Award, the Birgit Nilsson Prize at Operalia, the Kirsten Flagstad Award from the George London Foundation, a Sarah Tucker Study Grant, and the top prize from the Marilyn Horne Song

Doug Plaut is a New York-based Actor and Writer, most known for playing Terry on UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT. Other Credits include DAREDEVIL, VICE PRINCIPALS, HURRICANE BIANCA: FROM RUSSIA WITH HATE, NAOMI AND ELY'S NO KISS LIST, THE PREPPIE CONNECTION and THE MIMIC. He will next be seen in Charles Busch and Carl Andress' THE SIXTH REEL. Doug's IG | Doug's Twitter | Doug's IMDb ---

Dahlia De Fé is a burlesque performer cheekily known as the 'Witchy Wet Dream.' A darkly sardonic provocateur by night, they are a crew member by day! Dahlia's resume behind the camera includes shows like THE BLACKLIST and several murdery reenactment shows on Discovery ID, as well as behind the scenes at The Public Theatre and Heartbeat Opera. In a particularly poignant moment for

Melissa Center is an actor, filmmaker & crowdfunding coach. As an actor she was most recently seen opposite Susan Kelechi Watson on This is Us. Additional credits include Grey’s Anatomy, True Detective, and Masters of Sex. She wrote, produced, and starred in solo show Marrying Jake Gyllenhaal, which was hatched in partnership with Mark Duplass for Seed&Spark's Creative Su

Kay Koch is a musical theater actress/singer, puppeteer, classic rock maniac, and general maker-of-geeky-joy! Kay has been collaborating with Jen for (a highly memorable) 5 seasons on original puppet-based webseries THE WEIRDOS NEXT DOOR. She has produced a long-running all-female production of 1776, where she plays Thomas Jefferson. She has similarly gender-bent the role of The Ba

Kathy Deitch made her Broadway debut in the original cast of FOOTLOOSE and later created the role of Shen Shen in the smash Broadway hit WICKED. She made her LA acting debut at the Hollywood Bowl in RENT directed by Neil Patrick Harris. Other credits include: SILENCE! THE MUSICAL (LA Weekly Award), AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW, and the thriller LOFT, opposite Modern Family's E

Gianluca Russo is a fashion and culture writer who specializes on the topic of body diversity. His NYLON column “Plus Us” explores the many ways in which larger-bodied individuals are discriminated against in society today. Gianluca’s work has also appeared in GQ, Glamour, InStyle, Teen Vogue, and more. Gianluca is the CEO and co-founder of The Power of Plus, a size-inclusive

Cara Connors is an LA-based comedian and multifaceted homosexual with an ass that won’t quit. Cara stars on Dating #NoFilter on E! and her feminist investigative comedy series, Cara Takes Up Space, is now streaming on OUTtv. In 2018, she performed at the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and recently debuted her first hour long stand up show at the New York Comedy