The Breakdown with Robbie Robbie Simpson

Tom Kirdahy is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer whose projects have spanned Broadway, off-Broadway, the West End, and national and international tours. For more info, visit www.TheBreakdownPodcast.com and connect with us, let us know you're listening on Instagram and Facebook @TheBreakdownWithRobbie.

Steven is a Tony, Grammy, and Oliver Award winning playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter based in New York City. For more info, visit www.TheBreakdownPodcast.com and connect with us, let us know you're listening on Instagram and Facebook @TheBreakdownWithRobbie.

Michael is a Broadway, Film, and Television actor and writer. For more info, visit www.TheBreakdownPodcast.com and connect with us, let us know you're listening on Instagram and Facebook @TheBreakdownWithRobbie. Use code BREAKDOWN20 for $20 off any of their growth services at tsmagrowth.com.

Jack has won three Tony Awards and been nominated for seven more, and won five Drama Desk Awards. According to the Internet Broadway Data Base, Jack O’Brien has 52 Broadway credits to his name. For more info, visit www.TheBreakdownPodcast.com and connect with us, let us know you're listening on Instagram and Facebook @TheBreakdownWithRobbie.

Cody Renard Richard is an advocate, educator and professional Stage Manager with a career that spans many genres including Broadway, Television, Cirque Du Soleil and Opera. On Broadway, he has worked as a full time and substitute Stage Manager on 12 productions, most recently serving as the Production Stage Manager for Freestyle Love Supreme. Other Broadway: Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, The Lion King, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, Kinky Boots, If/Then, After Midnight, Motown the Musical, Ghost the Musical, Cyrano de Bergerac and Lysistrata Jones. TV: 2019 Tony Awards, 2020 & 2019 MTV VMAs, Jesus Christ Superstar Live!, Hairspray Live!, The Wiz Live!. Cirque du Soleil: OVO, Wintuk. Off Broadway/NY: Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera – Assistant Stage Director), Candide at Carnegie Hall, 5 productions with NY City Center Encores!, The Public Theatre, Atlantic Theatre Company, 2nd Stage, Transport Group, Pearl Theatre Company. Selected Regional: Lempicka at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Kennedy Center, The Muny, TUTS, Stages STL, Kansas City Rep, Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of STL. In addition to his production credits, he has served as adjunct faculty at New York University, Columbia University and Fordham University. As an advocate for change and equity, Cody has appeared live on CNN and has been interviewed on WNBC. Cody has been featured by Variety Magazine as one of their 2020 Broadway Players to Watch, Out Magazine as a 2020 OUT100 honoree and in Forbes. He launched The Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program in partnership with Broadway Advocacy Coalition in Sept of 2020 and holds a BFA in Stage Management from Webster Conservatory. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Directors Guild of America. www.codyrenard.com @codyrenard

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Gavin Creel is a Tony and Oliver Award winning Actor. For more info, visit www.TheBreakdownPodcast.com and connect with us, let us know you're listening on Instagram and Facebook @TheBreakdownWithRobbie. Use code BREAKDOWN20 for $20 off any of their growth services at tsmagrowth.com

Gavin Creel received a Tony Award for his performance as “Cornelius Hackl” in Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce. Gavin made his Broadway debut originating the role of “Jimmy Smith” in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which he received his first Tony Award nomination. He has since created such memorable performances on Broadway as “Claude” in Hair, which earned him a second Tony Award nomination, “Jean-Michel” in La Cage Aux Folles, and “Stephen Kodaly" in the Roundabout Theater Company’s production of She Loves Me, which was filmed live and is available on BroadwayHD. No stranger to London audiences, Gavin most notably originated the role of “Elder Price” in the West End production of The Book of Mormon, for which he received the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He also starred as “Bert” in Disney’s Mary Poppins and reprised his performance as “Claude” in Hair. Other stage credits include starring opposite Sara Bareilles in the Broadway and West End productions of Waitress, The Book of Mormon (on Broadway and originating the First National Tour), as well as the world premieres of Stephen Sondheim’s Bounce (at The Goodman Theatre and The Kennedy Center) and Prometheus Bound at A.R.T. On television, Gavin co-starred alongside Julie Andrews in ABC’s Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime. He has released three original albums GoodTimeNation, Quiet (which landed on “Billboard’s Top Heat Seekers”) and Get Out, and his single “Noise” raised money and awareness for marriage equality. Creel was a co-founder of Broadway Impact, the first and only grassroots organization to mobilize the nationwide theater community in support of marriage equality. A native of Findlay, Ohio, he is a proud graduate of University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance.