Nick Corley is one of those special people that you love instantly upon meeting. I first worked with Nick in 2008 when a New York Musical Festival show that he was directing lost its stage manager in the middle of the rehearsal process. My friend Barbara Walsh was in the cast (apologies for the name dropping, but hey, this is how the story goes!) and suggested me as a last-minute replacement! Nick was an incredibly fun, free-spirited director and we had a blast! A year l

I first met Betsy Morgan in 2011 when I worked on Michael John LaChiusa’s Queen of the Mist with her music director boyfriend (now husband!) Chris Fenwick. We all quickly became fast friends. Betsy and I have since worked on a few readings and workshops together, and last fall we finally got to pair up on a full production - another Michael John LaChiusa masterpiece, First Daughters Suite. Betsy has been in six Broadway shows, two of which were in the Imperial Theatre on 45t

In 2009, I was lucky enough to stage manage a beautiful production of Sweeney Todd at the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. I had never worked regionally before - when Nick Corley called and said that he was directing a production of Sweeney Todd starring Emily Skinner and Jeff McCarthy, I practically ran to the airport! Emily and Jeff had been friends for years, having starred together in the original production of Side Show in 1997! They had an incredible chemistry onstage and

I have always loved to look at the pictures in those big, beautiful coffee table books about the history of Broadway and dream about the golden age of musicals. You know the pictures I mean - Rodgers and Hammerstein at a piano covered in sheet music, Sondheim and Stritch in a recording studio… You can almost feel the energy and pulse of those rooms, where theatre magic was being born. And you may think that those are moments from a time long-gone…until you find yourself wor

When I started Broadway Up Close five years ago I made a promise that I would only hire a staff of guides who first and foremost were working members of the current professional theatre business in NYC and around the world. It's certainly an easy thing to say we have "working Broadway actors" like other companies claim but it's another thing to back it up! Not only am I excited for all of our tour-goers to learn about the history and magic of Broadway but I'm also excited for

When I started this company almost five years ago I always envisioned having a full staff of tour guides who were members of the theatre business like myself, either onstage or backstage. Each year we slowly acquired a few more guides bringing us to our current number of eleven wonderful theatre professionals. There are other companies who have always claimed to be providing "working actors from Broadway". When you book a tour with Broadway Up Close you are guaranteed to have

In creating Broadway Up Close it has always been important to me to be surrounded by a staff of highly talented theatre professionals that are as excited as I am to share the joy and wonder of a life in the theatre. As we continue to update our website with photos and bios of each of our staff members I thought it would be nice to get an even more in-depth "snapshot" of them individually. Below is our Broadway Up Close Questionnaire filled out by one of our most senior tour g