Neal Benari*
Yair Hirschfeld/Shimon Peres
Neal returned to acting last year after living in Taiwan for seven years. He recently performed in The MUNY’s production of Jersey Boys. Other credits include Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Aida, Victor/Victoria, The Merchant of Venice, Chess, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Roza and The First. Regional: Lend Me a Tenor (Tito Merelli), Man of La Mancha (Don Quixote), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Sweeney), Ragtime (Tateh) and My Fair Lady (Professor Higgins). Tours: Aida (Zoser), The Sound of Music (von Trapp) and Les Misérables (Thénardier). Performed in Michael Tilson Thomas’s The Thomashefskys with the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston symphonies. Film/television: The Sopranos, Law & Order, And the Band Played On and Sea of Love. Thanks to my agents at DGRW, and to my wife, Jasmine.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States