Face Claim: Corey Cott | Status: Taken

Character Name: Isaac McNeil

Age: 24

Current Occupation: Actor

Current Theatre Involvements: Currently starring as Charlie Price in Kinky Boots.

Theatre Credits:

Wicked (High School)

Rent (CMU)

Les Miserables (CMU)

Newsies (Broadway)

Biography: 

Broadway was the last place on earth that Isaac McNeil thought he would end up at in the future. Growing up in the small town of Coventry, Rhode Island – Isaac lived a fairly comfortable life with his parents. His father was a well-known lawyer and made sure that the family never had to worry for anything. His mother on the other hand was an actress on Broadway. While most people would have been proud to have a mother who made so far, Isaac never really cared much for the theater. No matter how much his mother attempted to get her son involved with theater, he never budged.

That was until he took the time and visited his mother in Manhattan while she made her debut as Christine in a production of Phantom of the Opera. As the boy sat in the balcony, he could feel the emotion of each actor as they sung and wished that he could evoke those same emotions in the future. From that moment the boy became enthralled with everything that Broadway had to offer. He would frequently tag along with his mother when she headed to work, even going as far to audition for plays in school. The boy landed his first role as Tony in his high school’s production of West Side Story.

This love for acting and singing didn’t stop there though. The boy vowed that when he graduated high school he would move to the city and attend the school of the arts at Pace University. His dreams soon turned into reality and he was off to be a part of city that never sleeps. After graduating with a BFA in theater, Isaac began searching for a job. Audition after audition, Isaac slowly came to the realization that finding work as an actor is not all that it’s cracked up to be. As the boy began to drawback into a pessimistic state, his agent rang him up and informed him about a promising audition for the role of Jack Kelly in the Newsies. Trying not to get his hopes up too high, the boy auditioned for the show; not expecting anything out of it. But when he received a callback, he won over the heart of the director. After two years in the cast of the Newsies at the Nederlander, the show came to a closing. The search was on once again.

This time of course with a name for himself it wasn’t too difficult. It wasn’t long before the starry eyed star received the role of Charlie Price in Kinky Boots. With this new sense of accomplishment there is also a new bit of confidence going to the boy’s head.