MTC Cabaret

ROBIN DE JESÚS
GETTING STARTED

March 23, 2024
@ 8:00pm

Performances at MUSIC THEATRE OF CONNECTICUT
509 Westport Avenue (Route 1) in Norwalk
(Click here for directions)

Get to know how Robin’s childhood love for golden era Broadway shaped him and how he chooses sanity in today’s mad world. Packed with personal stories, Broadway AND pop music that’ll leave you thinking you just had a first date.

About Robin de Jesús

Robin De Jesús is a three-time Tony Award nominated actor who was most recently seen as “Ray Colon” in HULU’s WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES opposite Kumail Nanjiani. Robin starred in the hit Netflix adaptation of TICK, TICK....BOOM! (2021), directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, opposite Andrew Garfield. Prior to, he featured in the Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix film, THE BOYS IN THE BAND (2020), reprising his Tony award nominated role. He can also be seen as “George” in the acclaimed indie-film MILKWATER (Brooklyn Film Festival 2020). Robin received his first major film role in the cult-classic feature CAMP (2003).

Other Broadway credits include RENT, IN THE HEIGHTS (for which he received his first Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical), LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (his second nomination), WICKED, and THE BOYS IN THE BAND (for which he received his third nomination). Additional theater credits include the Paper Mill Playhouse's productions of GREASE and GODSPELL, the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ's production of A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS, the St. Louis Muny production as the title character in ALADDIN, and the off-Broadway productions of MALPRACTICE MAKES PERFECT, ZORBA MUSICALS IN MUFTI, PATTI ISSUES, DOMESTICATED, and HOMOS OR EVERYONE IN AMERICA. 

Additional feature films and television projects include HAIR BRAINED (2013), GUN HILL ROAD (2011), HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA (2010) and in the recurring role of "Jose Silva" on LAW & ORDER: SVU.