Jana and Tom Shea Broadway Concert Series:
Eric Santagata
Performance Sunday, June 5th at 2:00 PM
Come see a cabaret of this Broadway performer crooning songs and telling stories of their experiences on the Great White Way...
Eric Santagata is an accomplished creator, performer and educator who has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London, on national tours and at regional theaters across the country. Most recently, Mr. Santagata finished his first year as the Patricia A. Corbett Distinguished Chair of Musical Theatre at the renowned University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. As a performer, his Broadway credits include Prince Of Broadway, Chaplin, Bullets Over Broadway, The Apple Tree, and Happiness at Lincoln Center. He served as Associate Director to Tony Award-winning director/writer James Lapine on the Broadway revival of Falsettos, and is a long time Associate Director/Choreographer to 5 time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman. He was an original creative team member on the Broadway and West End productions of The Scottsboro Boys, as well as The Beast in the Jungle and Dot for the Vineyard Theatre. Santagata has been a guest artist at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, The OpenJar Institute, and London’s Mousetrap Theatre Organization. He is a board member of Westport Country Playhouse’s Resident Conservatory – the Broadway Method Academy, as well as a pastry chef for the Jean-Georges Organization.