Derek Klena starred on Broadway in Alanis Morissette’s critically acclaimed musical, Jagged Little Pill, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He will soon conclude his run as Christian in the Tony Award–winning Best Musical Moulin Rouge!, directed by Alex Timbers. His performance earned him a Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Replacement. Last year, Klena also starred as Joe Gillis opposite Stephanie J. Block in the Kennedy Center’s limited run of Sunset Boulevard, which was part of their Broadway Center Stage program. 

Klena first broke onto the New York City theatre scene in the 2012 Off-Broadway revival of Carrie, where he quickly garnered attention from Oscar, GRAMMY®, and Tony winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul to originate the lead role of Eddie Birdlace in Dogfight. He received a Clive Barnes Award nomination for his performance. Klena made his Broadway début as Fiyero in the 10th-anniversary company of Wicked. On Broadway, he also originated the roles of Michael Johnson in Jason Robert Brown’s The Bridges of Madison County, and Dmitry in Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and Terrence McNally’s Anastasia. Other notable theatre credits include Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Unknown Soldier, directed by Trip Cullman; Signature Theatre’s Diner, written by Sheryl Crow and Barry Levinson; and the Hollywood Bowl’s star-studded production of Hairspray, directed by Jerry Mitchell. 

On television, Klena can currently be seen reprising the pivotal role of Wes in the second season of the Max series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin. Klena is known for his memorable arc as DJ Fingablast on Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s Netflix hit Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Other TV credits include CBS’s The Code (in a recurring arc) and Blue Bloods, Showtime’s City on a Hill, ABC’s Quantico, The CW’s The Tomorrow People and The Carrie Diaries, and NBC’s Law & Order: SVU.

Javier Muñoz is an actor and activist whose impressive body of work spans theatre, film, and television. He is best known for starring and co-creating the role of Alexander Hamilton in the hit musical Hamilton on Broadway for two years after Lin-Manuel Miranda departed the show (and was his alternate prior to that). He got his break starring as Usnavi in In the Heights on Broadway, also created by Miranda.

Muñoz starred in the dark comedy indie feature Monuments, opposite David Sullivan and Marguerite Moreau; the indie feature Love… Reconsidered; and Three Months, opposite Troye Sivan and Judy Greer on Paramount+. He voices a lead character in the Disney Jr. animated series Eureka! Other TV credits include Shadowhunters (in a recurring role), Blindspot, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Muñoz is also an outspoken activist for LGBTQ+ rights; a Global Ambassador for (RED), which fights to end HIV/AIDS; and a supporter of GMHC.

Ali Stroker is a Tony Award winner for her role as Ado Annie in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! She made history as the first actor in a wheelchair to appear on Broadway in Deaf West’s acclaimed 2015 revival of Spring Awakening. She’s a series regular in the Netflix series Echoes, and starred in the Lifetime holiday film Christmas Ever After. Stroker recurred in the final season of Netflix’s Ozark and is recurring in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. She co-wrote the novel The Chance to Fly and its sequel, Cut Loose!; and she wrote the children’s book Ali and the Sea Stars. She played Lady Anne in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Richard III. She’s performed her one-woman show all over the country, with some of her favourite venues being the Kennedy Center, Town Hall, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. Her mission to improve the lives of others through the arts is captured in her motto: “Turning Your Limitations into Your Opportunities.”