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Alexander Michael Brightman (born February 5, 1987) is an American actor and singer, best known for his work in musical theatre, specifically as Dewey Finn in the musical adaptation of School of Rock and the titular character in Beetlejuice The Musical. Both roles earned him nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2016 and 2019 respectively. Since 2020, he has voiced Robo Fizz and Fizzarolli in the adult animated musical animated series Helluva Boss, and since 2024, he has starred as Sir Pentious and Adam in Hazbin Hotel. Early life Brightman grew up in Saratoga, California. He is Jewish. His father founded Apple's Worldwide Disabilities Solutions Group, and his mother ran a kidney dialysis clinic. He attended Bellarmine College Preparatory, an all-male Jesuit high school in San Jose, California, and graduated in 2005. In addition, he performed with Children’s Musical Theater San Jose during his youth. In 2007, Brightman performed in "Mrs. Sharp" by Ryan Scott Oliver at N.Y.U. under the direction of Ryan Mekenian with Ali Stroker & Scott Evans also in the cast. Career Broadway Brightman first worked on Broadway in 2008, as an ensemble member and understudy in Glory Days, which closed after only one performance. Brightman never performed in the show. Thereafter, Brightman was cast as the munchkin Boq and made his Broadway debut in Wicked. He stayed with the show for two years. His next Broadway role was in 2012 in Big Fish as an ensemble member and an understudy for a main role. Later in 2013, Brightman was cast as Michael Wormwood in Matilda the Musical. In 2014, Brightman joined Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, School of Rock, adapted from the 2003 film of the same name. Initially, Brightman played various roles that were meant to be played by child actors but were performed by adults for the workshops. Brightman was cast in the starring role of Dewey, first, in the show's concert performances, and then, in his first starring role, in the Broadway production. Brightman performed as Dewey Finn at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. For this performance, Brightman received a nomination for the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Brightman played his final performance as Dewey on November 5, 2016 and returned to reprise the role for a limited run in April 2017. He returned to Broadway in 2019 to play the title role in Beetlejuice (based on the film of the same name), and reprised the role in 2022. He was again nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical at the 73rd Tony Awards ceremony. Since 9 January 2024, he’s reprised his role of Sir Lancelot in a Broadway revival of the musical Spamalot. Other work Brightman is a member of the comedy group, The (M)orons, along with fellow Broadway actors/writers, Andrew Kober, F. Michael Haynie, and Drew Gasparini. Brightman and Gasparini developed The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers in 2016. Brightman is currently developing two new musicals entitled The Whipping Boy, based on the book, and It's Kind of a Funny Story (based on the novel of the same name), with Gasparini, for which Brightman wrote the script. Brightman made an appearance on Impractical Jokers during Brian "Q" Quinn's musical punishment that's based on the latter's real-life experience as a firefighter and leaving that life behind for TV fame. In October 2019, it was announced that Brightman will be joining the cast of the Billy Crystal helmed comedy film Here Today. Brightman was revealed in 2020 to be voicing the character Fizzarolli, and his robotic doppelganger Robo Fizz, in the animated web series Helluva Boss. In addition, he voiced Pugsley and the demon possessing him, Temeluchus, in the Netflix animated series Dead End: Paranormal Park. In the tenth season of The Blacklist, he plays the Herbie Hambright, father of a little girl in diapers he brings everywhere. Since 2024, he has starred as the voices of Sir Pentious and Adam in Hazbin Hotel. Personal life Brightman married casting director Jenny Ravitz on May 21, 2018 at a ceremony in Brooklyn. Brightman has revealed that he utilizes ventricular fold phonation, allowing him to create the signature gruff voice of Beetlejuice and Fizzarolli without strain on his vocal cords. During a 2023 interview for The Shark Is Broken, Brightman revealed that he has bipolar disorder. Stage credits Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations References External links Alex Brightman at IMDb Alex Brightman at the Internet Broadway Database Alex Brightman at the Internet Off-Broadway Database. Discover the Andrew Alex popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Andrew Alex books.
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AGENT IMPOSSIBLE - Operation Mumbai
Andrew LaneAgent Without Licence – zwei Teenager retten die WeltKieron und sein Freund Sam, zwei ganz normale Teenager, hängen gerade im Fastfoodladen ab, als der Mann am Nebentisch vor aller...
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Opposites
Andrew AlexNOTE: the author of these books also developed a mobile app, Everycards. Now you can create your own, accessible flashcards and quizzes with text, images and sounds! This set of A...
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The English Alphabet
Andrew AlexNOTE: the author of these books also developed a mobile app, Everycards. Now you can create your own, accessible flashcards and quizzes with text, images and sounds! This set of f...
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J.C. - Agent im Fadenkreuz
Joe CraigJason BourneAgententhrill freigegeben ab elf JahrenWer zum Teufel sind diese mysteriösen Black Men, die Jimmy durch die City von London jagen? Was verbergen seine Eltern vor ihm? ...
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Postcards to Europe
Various AuthorsThis is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, and what makes us European.Spend time with some of your favourite writers and artists in this truly uni...
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Thirst
L. A. LarkinAntarctica is the coldest, most isolated place on earth. Luke Searle, maverick glaciologist, has made it his home. But soon his survival skills will be tested to the limit by a...
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Spy School - Diamantenfieber
Jonas BoetsSam Smiths zweiter Fall: spannender, gefährlicher, internationaler!Im zweiten Jahr seiner Ausbildung zum Geheimagenten steht ein Auslandspraktikum auf dem Plan, das Sam nach Barcel...
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Baby Animals
Andrew AlexNOTE: the author of these books also developed a mobile app, Everycards. Now you can create your own, accessible flashcards and quizzes with text, images and sounds! Vol. 4: koala...
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The Perfect Life
Nuala EllwoodHAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO BE SOMEONE ELSE?Vanessa has always found it easy to pretend to be somebody different, somebody better. When things get tough in her real life, all she has t...
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Devour
L. A. LarkinTheir greatest fear was contaminating an ancient Antarctic lake, buried beneath the ice for millions of years. They little knew the catastrophe they were about to unleash.Welcome t...
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Colours, Shapes and Patterns
Andrew AlexNOTE: the author of these books also developed a mobile app, Everycards. Now you can create your own, accessible flashcards and quizzes with text, images and sounds! Babies and to...
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Graphic Content
Brian Singer63 top creatives speak out on art, inspiration, life, and random things that happened."We watched as 60 yards away this man fought for his life. And I felt like a coward.""The pole...
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Spy School - In geheimer Mission
Jonas BoetsEin Held der ExtraKlasse: Sam Smith ist da!Der 12jährige Sam Smith ist ein ganz normaler Junge. Aber genau das qualifiziert ihn als Schüler der internationalen Agentenschule in Lon...
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The Drowning Kind
Jennifer McMahonA NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021In this “blisteringly suspenseful tale that will keep you up at night” (Wendy Webb, author of Daughters of the Lake), a woman returns to the o...
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The Genesis Flaw
L. A. LarkinHuman experiments in Zimbabwe, an Australian farmer's death, and a Sydney CEO's suicide: these events are linked in the mind of one woman, Serena Swift. A ballsy advertising direct...
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The Children on the Hill
Jennifer McMahonFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind comes a genredefying novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, that brilliantly explores the eerie...
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Aliens vs. Predators - Ultimate Prey
Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Jonathan Maberry, Louis Ozawa, Scott Sigler & Maurice BroaddusThe first anthology of fifteen original short stories featuring the confluence of two iconic properties, as the Predators seek the ultimate prey, the Xenomorphs from Alien. Featuri...
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Playing With Fire
Nasser HussainNasser Hussain was acclaimed as England's best cricket captain since Mike Brearley. Under his leadership, a side more famous for its batting collapses and ability to seize defeat f...
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Baby Animals
Andrew AlexNOTE: the author of these books also developed a mobile app, Everycards. Now you can create your own, accessible flashcards and quizzes with text, images and sounds! Vol. 2: swall...
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The Book of the Year 2018
No Such Thing As A Fish‘My favourite geeks. Hilarious. Sideways. Brilliant.’ Tim MinchinIn a year dominated by Russian collusion and Brexit confusion, The Book of the Year returns with another dose of ba...
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A Dance of Ghosts
Kevin BrooksPI John Craine is struggling to cope with the weight of his past. Sixteen years ago his wife, Stacy, was brutally murdered. Craine found her body in their bed. And since then, to e...
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Numbers and Counting
Andrew AlexNOTE: the author of these books also developed a mobile app, Everycards. Now you can create your own, accessible flashcards and quizzes with text, images and sounds! This set of 1...
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Transport
Andrew AlexNOTE: the author of these books also developed a mobile app, Everycards. Now you can create your own, accessible flashcards and quizzes with text, images and sounds! Whether your ...
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Baby Animals
Andrew AlexNOTE: the author of these books also developed a mobile app, Everycards. Now you can create your own, accessible flashcards and quizzes with text, images and sounds! Vol. 3: kanga...
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Dead Set on Living
Chris Grosso & Alice PeckChris Grosso invites us to sit in on conversations with beloved luminaries and bestselling authors such as Ram Dass, Lissa Rankin, Noah Levine, Gabor Mate, and Sharon Salzberg to d...
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Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer
Alastair Panton'DESERVES TO JOIN REACH FOR THE SKY AND THE LAST ENEMY AS ONE OF THE GREAT RAF BOOKS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR' ANDREW ROBERTSAs I write, I can clearly recall the stinging heat of a...
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Baby Animals
Andrew AlexNOTE: the author of these books also developed a mobile app, Everycards. Now you can create your own, accessible flashcards and quizzes with text, images and sounds! Vol. 1: chick...
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An Invisible Thread
Laura Schroff & Alex TresniowskiA Parents’ Choice Recommended Award Winner A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionFrom New York Times bestselling authors Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski comes the young ...
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My Darling Girl
Jennifer McMahonFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Children on the Hill, a psychological thriller “that delivers both chilling scares and genuine emotion” (Chandler Baker, New York ...
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Scorpion Trail
Geoffrey ArcherAlex Crawford has been out of MI5 and the combat zone for twenty years, but now fate has thrust him back into the front line.Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders ...
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Shadow Hunter
Geoffrey ArcherOne renegade captain threatens disasterHMS Truculent is a nuclearpowered, hunterkiller submarine, and one of the most deadly weapon systems in the world. Phil Hitchens is its disti...
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Glory, Goals and Greed
Joe LovejoyThe FA Premier League was born 20 years ago, on 23 September 1991, and has since established itself as the most popular club competition in world football. At the start, however, t...
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Professions and Occupations
Andrew AlexNOTE: the author of these books also developed a mobile app, Everycards. Now you can create your own, accessible flashcards and quizzes with text, images and sounds! Is your child...