Manoel Felciano
Manoel Felciano is an American actor, singer, and songwriter.
Career
He received a humanities degree from Yale University. Felciano attended the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2004. He joined the American Conservatory Theater 's core acting program in 2009, having previously performed there in Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo and Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll.Felciano is known for playing Tobias Ragg in the 2005 Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. In this production, all of the actors played their own instruments, with Felciano playing the piano, violin and clarinet.
He appeared in the "Reprise" production of Sunday in the Park with George in January 2007.
He appeared in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Three Sisters in July 2008, as "Andrei". He appeared at the Kennedy Center in Ragtime in April to May 2009, as "Tateh". He performed in the stage musical Anastasia at Hartford Stage as "Gleb". The production ran from May 12 to June 12, 2016.
Profiled as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre by Columbia University School of the Arts in 2022.
Personal life
His father is Richard Felciano, a contemporary composer and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus, and his mother is Rita Felciano, a dance critic.Theatre credits
;Broadway- Cabaret - Swing, 1998-1999
- Jesus Christ Superstar - Ensemble & u/s Judas Iscariot and Annas, 2000
- Brooklyn - u/s Taylor Collins, 2004-2005
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Tobias Ragg -, 2005-2006
- Disaster! - Wealthy Man/Taxi Driver/Workman 2 & u/s Tony, Ted, & Maury, 2016
- Amelie - Raphael/Bretodeau, 2017
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Horace Gilmer, 2019
- Dear Evan Hansen - Larry Murphy, 2022
- Parade - Tom Watson, 2023
- Much Ado About Nothing, 2004
- Shockheaded Peter, 2005
- Trumpery, 2007
- Ragtime - Tateh, 2013
- The Changeling, 2016
- By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, 2019
- Parade, 2022
- Clybourne Park
- Round and Round the Garden
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle
- November
- Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo
- Rock 'n' Roll
- A Christmas Carol
- Anastasia - Gleb, 2016
- Side Show, 2014
- Ragtime - Tateh, 2009
- Three Sisters, 2008
- Sunday in the Park with George, 2007
Discography
;Cast albums- 1998 — Cabaret: The New Broadway Cast Recording
- 2004 — Brooklyn: The Musical
- 2005 — Sweeney Todd
- 2017 — Amélie - A New Musical