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George Bernard Shaw, adapted by Jerry Mañan · Directed by John Rensenhouse · Frantze Family Black Box Theatre, Goppert Performing Arts Center at Avila University, Kansas City
Get tickets →A performer who can land a punchline, a soliloquy and a key change in the same night.
Zachary Ford is a Kansas City based actor, singer and physical comedian who works regularly on both coasts, on stage and on TV. He sang Diesel on the San Francisco Symphony's Grammy-nominated West Side Story, and StageSceneLA named him its L.A. Stage Star of the Year for his work at La Mirada Theatre, 3-D Theatricals and Musical Theatre Guild.
His stage work runs from Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Drury Lane Oakbrook to Musical Theatre West, Arizona Theatre Company and the Las Vegas company of Spamalot. In Kansas City he has played the title role in Sweeney Todd at Music Theater Heritage, Mr. Green in Clue, and appeared in Newsies at Starlight. Critics single out the same thing again and again: the laughs.
He has helped develop new musicals from the ground up, in early workshops and original casts of Heathers, Loving Repeating, Empire Burlesque, iGhost and Bumpersticker. He is also a teacher: as a professor at Studio School Los Angeles he taught Golden Age musical theatre and guitar, and brought students into professional regional productions. He is the manager of Tinseltones KC, Kansas City's caroling company. Offstage he plays guitar, mandolin and ukulele, narrates audiobooks, builds things out of wood, and is a dad.
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“A magnetic Zachary Ford.”
Sang Diesel on the San Francisco Symphony's live recording with Michael Tilson Thomas, nominated for Best Musical Theater Album.
For End of the Rainbow, Million Dollar Quartet and Sugar.
For Mickey Deans in End of the Rainbow at La Mirada Theatre, 2018.
For Bye Bye Birdie and Young Frankenstein, 2013–14.
Sugar, Honeymoon in Vegas, It Shoulda Been You, Parade, Titanic, The Secret Garden and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
Songs from his YouTube channel, from Golden Age classics to comedy. Each one opens in a full-screen player.
Stage and TV work. Full resume available on request.
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