Bret Shuford and Stephen Hanna are the Broadway Husbands (//broadwayhusbands.com)--openly LGBTQ married working actors, performers, and BroadwayLife coaches. Bret (//bretshuford.com) 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 like The Huffington Post, Backstage, Today Show, Good Morning America, and America’s Got Talent. Stephen (//stephenrhanna.com) was a soloist and principal dancer with the New York City ballet, going on to perform on Broadway in Billy Elliott, On the Town, An American in Paris, and Hello, Dolly! He has also appeared on television in All My Children, Boardwalk Empire, Forever, and Pose. Broadway Husbands IG (//instagram.com/broadwayhusbands) | YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQlaT63U239pnJzGsKR1zQ) | From Imposter To Influencer Map (//impostertoinfluencermap.com)
26 Jan 2022
Paco Lozano, or: Weeping with Meryl
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 Bautista, and Ed Burns, Paco is a familiar face in New York film and television--but his favorite production thus far is his son. Paco's IG (//instagram.com/puertopaco) | Paco's Twitter (//twitter.com/puertopaco)
19 Jan 2022
Tracy Cox, or: If the Fat Lady Sings... Listen
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 Competition. She has sung with orchestras around the world, including the MÁV Symphony of Budapest, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony, Los Angeles Opera, and at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center in Moscow.
Tracy has been interviewed by the New York Times on Fat Politics and restaurant accessibility, and currently has over 20,000 followers on her Instagram @sparklejams where she centers fat liberation, fat vanity, and fat talent in the performing arts. Tracy is a highly sought-after speaker and consultant on the topic of body justice in the performing arts and has been presented by numerous opera companies and arts organizations including Long Beach Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera NexGen, Sigma Alpha Iota, River City Opera, and the M Institute for the Arts in Washington D.C.
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