Jelani Alladin

Alladin grew up in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.^[2] He attended high school in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he was an athlete and a performer, playing lacrosse and participating in track as well as performing lead roles such as the Emcee in Cabaret and The Cat in the Hat in Seussical.^[2]

He then attended the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied a variety of acting styles including cinema acting, song and dance acting, and vocal performance.^[3]

Alladin starred in the Off-Broadway show Sweetee as Cat Jones and received the San Francisco Critics Circle Award for Best Leading Actor as Pharus in Choir Boy.^[4] Other regional credits include I and You (TheatreSquared), The History Boys (Palmbeach Dramaworks), Violet (Clarence Brown Theatre), and the world premiere of Josephine (Asolo Rep).^[4] Alladin has also appeared Off-Broadway at York Theatre in the New York City premiere of Lord Tom and a revival of Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope.^[4] In Alladin's Broadway debut, he played the role of Kristoff in the 2018 musical Frozen.^[5] He left Frozen after a year to play the role of Hercules in the musical Hercules.^[6]

Starting in 2014, Alladin's career spanned across Theatre and Film/Television. His on-screen debut was as Deke in High Noon on the West Side. His most recent appearance on-camera was as Marcus Gaines in the miniseries Fellow Travelers.^[1] The series won the award for "Chronicling LGBTQ+ History Over 50 Years."