Posted: 5/23/21 at 6:18pm
Posted: 5/23/21 at 6:19pm
NameGreg said: "Lin Manuel Miranda obviously comes to mind with this topic, but who are other creative forces that have acted in their plays or musicals?"
Comden & Green! On the Town.
Posted: 5/23/21 at 6:20pm
Jonathan Larson (Tick, Tick, Boom!)
Sara Bareilles (Waitress)
Dave Malloy (Natasha)
Doesn't really count but Sondheim (on Sondheim)
Updated On: 5/23/21 at 06:20 PM
Posted: 5/23/21 at 6:41pm
Marc Shaiman in Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
Billie Joe Armstrong in American Idiot
Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen in [title of show] and Now. Here. This.
Updated On: 5/23/21 at 06:41 PM
Posted: 5/23/21 at 6:50pm
Also, the cast of Pump Boys and Dinettes.
Posted: 5/23/21 at 7:07pm
Posted: 5/23/21 at 7:24pm
Christopher Durang as Vanya in “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” at the Bucks County Playhouse. Apparently he couldn’t remember his lines which is ironic.
Posted: 5/23/21 at 7:36pm
Posted: 5/23/21 at 7:39pm
It's quite common with solo shows, especially when you look Off, and Off-Off Broadway, and places like the Edinburgh fringe. So common, in fact, that's not even worth trying to name examples. Even if you exclude solo shows, it's still so common that we're unlikely to be able to name all of the examples in one thread. But for what it's worth, I keep a list of the examples I've seen personally (I'm a compulsively list-keeper by nature), excluding solo shows:
Larry David
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Sting
Dave Malloy
Harvey Fierstein
Sara Bereilles
Amy Staats
Cesar Alvarez
Ngozi Anyanwu
The Bengsons
Andrew Lippa
Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins
Nia Vardalos
Shaina Taub
Seth Rudetsky
Tracy Letts
Halley Feiffer
Kate Hammill
Grace McLean
Posted: 5/23/21 at 8:12pm
Anaïs Mitchell originated the role of Eurydice, when Hadestown was still in its early phases.
Posted: 5/23/21 at 8:19pm
John Cariani's acted in a few productions of Almost, Maine. Stew played the narrator in Passing Strange, and got quadruple nominated at the Tonys (Best Book, Score, Orchestrations, and Leading Actor - Lin and Malloy can eat their hearts out).
Posted: 5/23/21 at 8:43pm
Some examples that I've seen:
Heidi Schreck (What the Constitution Means to Me)
John Mulaney and Nick Kroll (Oh, Hello)
Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture and Whorl Inside a Loop)
Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone)
Heather Raffo (Noura)
James Ortiz (The Woodsman)
Kyle Jarrow and Lauren Worsham (The Wildness)
John Pollono (Small Engine Repair)
Geoff Sobelle (The Object Lesson)
Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen (Blood Play and Jacuzzi)
Posted: 5/23/21 at 10:54pm
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Gerome Ragni and James Rado played Berger and Claude, respectively, in the original Broadway and L.A. casts of Hair.
Posted: 5/23/21 at 11:17pm
Sherie Renee Scott - Everyday Rapture
Shoshana Bean - Dear John Mayer
Anna Deveare Smith has starred in multiple plays she has written.
Bowen and Bell - Title of Show
Griffin Matthews - Witness Uganda
Colman Domingo - A Boy and His Soul
Anthony Wayne - Mighty Real
Stew - Passing Strange
Bob Martin - Drowsy Chaperone
Updated On: 5/23/21 at 11:17 PM
Posted: 5/23/21 at 11:38pm
John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask in Hedwig
Posted: 5/24/21 at 12:15am
Harold Pinter has acted in several of his plays.
Tracy Letts said on several occasions that he did not intend to act in any of his own plays, but then he did in the Broadway mounting of The Minutes.
Updated On: 5/24/21 at 12:15 AM
Posted: 5/24/21 at 3:04am
Posted: 5/24/21 at 8:50am
Louis Jenkins and Mark Rylance were in Nice Fish
Posted: 5/24/21 at 9:36am
Jason Robert Brown in The Last 5 Years
Nathan Lane in The Frogs
Andrew R. Butler in Rags Parkland
Heather Christian in Animal Wisdom
Updated On: 5/24/21 at 09:36 AM
Posted: 5/24/21 at 10:09am
For all I said above, turns out this thread is actually helping me realize there are gaps in my list: several of the names mentioned above were people I had seen, but forgot to put on my list. For example, I totally forgot that Heather Raffo played the lead in Noura.
Posted: 5/24/21 at 8:44pm
also George M. Cohan
Posted: 5/24/21 at 9:01pm
Harvey Fierstein - Torch Song Trilogy. Perfection
Posted: 5/24/21 at 9:23pm
Ivor Novello
Posted: 5/25/21 at 7:45am
Ruth Gordon starred in several of her own plays
Elaine Stritch
Lynn Redgrave
David Hare
