Manoel Felciano

He received a humanities degree from Yale University.^[2] Felciano attended the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2004.^[3] He joined the American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco)'s core acting program in 2009, having previously performed there in Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo and Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll.^[2]

Felciano is known for playing Tobias Ragg in the 2005 Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. In this production, all of the actors played their own instruments, with Felciano playing the piano, violin and clarinet.^[4][5]

He appeared in the "Reprise" (Los Angeles) production of Sunday in the Park with George in January 2007.^[6] He appeared in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Three Sisters in July 2008, as "Andrei".^[7] He appeared at the Kennedy Center in Ragtime in April to May 2009, as "Tateh".^[8] He performed in the stage musical Anastasia at Hartford Stage (Connecticut) as "Gleb". The production ran from May 12 to June 12, 2016.^[9]

Profiled as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre by Columbia University School of the Arts in 2022.^[10]

His father is Richard Felciano, a contemporary composer and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus, and his mother is Rita Felciano, a dance critic.^[2]

Broadway

• Cabaret - Swing (Broadway debut), 1998-1999
• Jesus Christ Superstar - Ensemble & u/s Judas Iscariot and Annas, 2000
• Brooklyn - u/s Taylor Collins, 2004-2005
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Tobias Ragg - (Tony Award nomination), 2005-2006
• Disaster! - Wealthy Man/Taxi Driver/Workman 2 & u/s Tony, Ted, & Maury, 2016
• Amelie - Raphael/Bretodeau, 2017
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Horace Gilmer, 2019
• Dear Evan Hansen - Larry Murphy, 2022
• Parade - Tom Watson, 2023

Off-Broadway

• Much Ado About Nothing, 2004
• Shockheaded Peter, 2005
• Trumpery, 2007
• Ragtime - Tateh, 2013
• The Changeling, 2016
• By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, 2019
• Parade, 2022

American Conservatory Theater^[11]

• Clybourne Park
• Round and Round the Garden
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• November
• Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo
• Rock 'n' Roll
• A Christmas Carol

Regional (U.S.)

• Anastasia - Gleb (Hartford Stage), 2016
• Side Show (Kennedy Center), 2014
• Ragtime - Tateh (Kennedy Center), 2009
• Three Sisters (Williamstown Theatre Festival), 2008
• Sunday in the Park with George (Reprise Theatre Company), 2007