Heidi Gleichauf

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HEIDI GLEICHAUF (Performer) HEIDI GLEICHAUF (Performer) is an actress, singer and improviser who hails from Franklin, Massachusetts. She is a proud graduate of Hofstra University where she studied Musical Theatre and received a BFA in Theatre Performance. Recently Heidi originated the role of “Sandy” in the well-received off-Broadway musical “With or Without You”, soundtrack available on Spotify and other streaming services. Heidi writes and does voiceover work for the popular children’s YouTube channel “TBTV Toy Adventures” and has collaborated with Dreamworks Studios to create original content for their “Universal Kids” YouTube channel. Stay up to date on all of Heidi’s happenings at www.HeidiGleichauf.com

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Matt Giroveanu

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MATT GIROVEANU (Performer) (SAG-AFTRA) is an actor, musical improviser & voiceover artist from Astoria, NY. Matt majored in TV Production and double minored in Theatre Studies & Performance at Seton Hall University. Matt can be seen weekly in New York City on the musical improv house team VERN at the Peoples Improv Theater, who in conjunction with Audible.com, produced “A Very Improvised Holiday Musical” with Tony-winner Laura Benanti. Television credits include HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Deuce,” Netflix's “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” ID’s “A Crime To Remember” & SyFy’s “Happy!”  www.MattGiro.com

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Matt Giroveanu's Phony-Winning Songs in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

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Reviews of Matt Giroveanu in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

“We can’t forget Katie Hammond and Matt Giroveanu, who, in the hit song, “I Only Have One Hand” from their swashbuckling pirate musical, Before There Was Hook, utilize wordplay with aplomb.”

— Matt Smith, Theater Pizzazz

Mallory Kinney

MALLORY KINNEY (Performer) is an actor/improvisor/musician/director/producer and full-time goblin. With a long history of performing, creating, and teaching, Mallory currently produces and performs in several improv/comedy shows, including the weekly "Smart and Lovely Show" in midtown Manhattan, is half of the Children's Entertainment/Learning duo 'CC and Mallory,' and enjoys making film projects with her best friends. @iheartmallory

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Deb Rabbai

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DEB RABBAI (Co-Artistic Director, Co-Producer, Performer) is an original member and co-creator of Broadway’s Next H!T Musical.  A native New Yorker, Deb has worked as an actor, improviser, singer and voiceover artist for the last twenty five years.  Deb became the Co-Artistic Director of BNHM in 2009 and has proudly witnessed its progress into the hilarious hit it is today.  A graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC, Deb spent ten years performing and teaching improvisation with Freestyle Repertory Theatre (TheatreSports New York),  five years performing with ComedySportz NY and seven years with the Chicago City Limits national touring company. Deb is a highly experienced teacher of improvisation and acting, having worked at NYU, Marymount Manhattan College, The American Comedy Institute, NY Film Academy and American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC. Deb successfully created programs that teach curriculum through improvisation – these programs have been integrated into public schools in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.  Deb has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and in national commercials for MasterCard, Wendy’s and Zyrtec.  Deb has done countless voiceovers, ranging from radio and TV advertisements, to video games and anime films. For more information, please visit www.DebRabbai.com

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Videos of Deb Rabbai in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

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Audio of Deb Rabbai in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

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Reviews Mentioning Deb Rabbai

“Deb Rabbai, who also serves as co-producer and co-artistic director for the group, creatively transported the audience to a magical world in, “I Graduated Today,” and seamlessly sang her improvised lyrics with confidence that made me honestly question whether or not this was actually made up on the spot. ”

— Sally Henry, Broadway World

“Deb Rabbai opened the night; her song title was “Des Moines Blues.” Rabbai, also a co-creator, instantly decided the song Des Moines Blues came from a musical Snow Again, about a Des Moines model whose plane flight to bigger and better things is cancelled because of a freak May snowstorm. Rabbai has quite a set of pipes and was dropping lines that were perfectly timed.”

— Brooke Bridenstine, BroadwayWorld.com

“Rabbai, the most skilled and thoughtful of the cast, found herself with “A Rope and Hope.” She turned the phrase into a gleeful bit on airplane travel in the current times. In her other theatrical work she is a voice for animated features and voice-over work. It showed. ”

— David Siegel, DC Metro News

“The comedy improv in “Broadway’s Next Hit Musical” moved from excellent to inspired Friday night at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall when Deb Rabbai and Rob Schiffmann took off their shoes and socks, pressed their bare feet together and sang a love duet. ”

— Steve Barnes, TimesUnion

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Jeff Scherer

JEFF SCHERER (Performer) is a writer and comedian living in Brooklyn with his much funnier wife, dog, and cat. He has been performing improv comedy since 2002 in New York City and around the country — though his performing career arguably began with a talent show at Indian Landing Elementary School in Rochester, where he and a friend performed a mostly improvised, vividly surreal slapstick performance of a man going to visit the dentist, undoubtedly plagiarized wholesale from the Carol Burnett Show. He is the writer of four screenplays, two plays, and two children's books, for which he is patiently waiting to get paid.

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Stefan Schick

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STEFAN SCHICK (Performer) has been a member of Chicago City Limits (2008 and 2009 MAC Award Winner, Best Comedy/Improv Group) since 2003, first with its National Touring Company and currently with its Resident Company.  He also performs with the longform improv group Stray, and has appeared in numerous plays, sketch shows and short films in NYC. Television credits include TBS and the NY Television Festival. Thanks to BNHM, love to AF.  Look Theo and Eloise, daddy's a llama!

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Videos of Stefan Schick in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

This is a video of Stefan Schick & Kobi Libii's first act song from the May 31st, 2013 performance of Broadway's Next Hit Musical at The Triad, NYC.

Broadway's Next Hit Musical usually improvises songs from improvised musicals. But with this series we improvise a song from a Tony-nominated musical, BRIGHT STAR! Stefan Schick turns on his Steve Martin in order to turn down the moon! Head to BroadwaysNextHitMusical.com to find out when we'll be performing near you!

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Audio of Stefan Schick in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

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Rob Schiffmann

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ROB SCHIFFMANN (Co-Artistic Director, Co-Producer, Performer) has worked and toured as a professional improviser and musician for over seventeen years.  As a two-time MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Award winner and the recipient of the 2011 INNY (Improvisation News) Award for Best Improv Coach, Rob’s musical and improv talents are known across the country.  He has taught and directed improv at The School for Film and Television, Weist-Barron, and the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. A graduate of Oberlin College, Rob performed regularly with Chicago City Limits before joining Broadway’s Next Hit Musical in 2001.  BNHM’s master improvisers started their success at the famous NYC cabaret club Don’t Tell Mama as well as with the New York Musical Theater Festival. Rob became Co-Artistic Director in 2009, and continues to perform with the hysterical troupe throughout the country and at their resident theater The Triad in NYC.  Called “sharper than a pound of cheddar cheese” by reviewfix.com, Rob has showcased his skills on The Daily Download and The CBS Early Show. Rob’s musical talent is also evident with the New York based acoustic-pop band, The Hillary Step; he is the main writer, lead singer, guitarist, and Music Director. For more information, please visit www.robschiffmann.com.

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Videos of Rob Schiffmann in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

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Audio of Rob Schiffmann in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

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Reviews of Rob Schiffmann in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

“Easily the highlight of the evening was co-producer/co-artistic director Rob Schiffman. His creative mind is full of rhymes and childlike creativity that was refreshing. He listened to his fellow actors brilliantly, so much so that he could sing in harmony or descant with them and (usually) successfully made a well-structured musical number. The entire time, I could not decide whether he should go into writing or acting, because the former would seem a waste of a brilliant character actor, and the latter a waste of a brilliant writer. Thus, I believe he has found his niche in improvisational musicals. I will say that his vocals were wanting at multiple times, but this is the first case in which I can genuinely say that such a flaw didn’t matter at all. Particularly, he and Grant read each other very well, to the point that their scenes together seemed rehearsed. The scenes that they shared were the highlight.”

— Sally Henry, Broadway World

“Deb Rabbai and Rob Schiffmann were sharper than a pound of cheddar cheese.”

— Patrick Hickey Jr, ReviewFix.com

“And as it turns out, a show about an Iowa model can hinge on the evil ways of a serpent like devil, hilariously played by Rob Schiffmann, whose weakness is frigid temperatures.”

— Brooke Bridenstine, Broadway World

Pat Swearingen

PAT SWEARINGEN (Performer) is an actor living in New York City. His hometown of Danville, Illinois has also produced Dick Van Dyke, Bobby Short, and Gene Hackman so here's hoping some of that rubbed off on him! He is currently a featured performer and instructor at the Peoples Improv Theater in NYC. Favorite musical performances in the field of parodies have been as Doc Brown in "That 80's Time Travel Movie", Freddie Krueger in "A Bad Dream on Elm Avenue", Caesar in "The Hungry, Hungry Games", and more traditionally as Frump in "How To Succeed..", and Crazy Old Maurice in "Beauty and the Beast". Check out his comedy acting reel! More video can be seen here.

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Missa Thompson

MISSA THOMPSON (Performer) hails from Cleveland, where she has been performing since early childhood, starring in familiar favorites such as The Wiz and Bubbling Brown Sugar. In addition to her love of acting, Missa is also a fitness enthusiast and vegan foodie.

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