Conrad Ricamora recently wrapped shooting the sixth and final season of HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, ABC’s highly-praised legal thriller. You might also know him as the leading man of SOFT POWER, David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori’s new musical that was recently named as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. For his performance as Xuē Xíng, Conrad was nominated for both a Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award. You might also recognize him as Lun Tha from the 2015 Lincoln Center Theatre production of RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S THE KING AND I, as well as his performance as Aquino in HERE LIES LOVE, for which he received a Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical. TRAINING: MFA, University of Tennessee; BA, Queens University of Charlotte.
Conrad Ricamora joins me on Zoom to chat about his unlikely undergraduate education, a lesson he took away from his time playing sports, the importance of opening doors for himself, his crazy exciting audition for HERE LIES LOVE, the magical night that I was in audience for RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S THE KING AND I at Lincoln Center Theater, as well as crafting his most recent on-stage role in SOFT POWER and his extraordinary collaboration with Leigh Silverman, David Henry Hwang, and Jeanine Tesori.