Manoel Felciano

Manoel Felciano (born November 12, 1974) is an American actor, singer, and songwriter.

He received a humanities degree from Yale University. Felciano attended New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2004. He joined the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) (San Francisco) 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."

Feliciano 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.

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

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

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