NJ Youth Theatre Alumni Okieriete Onaodowan , pictured on the left as Oberon enchanting the Fairies in NJYT's original musical, Midnight Madness, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is an NJYT alumni that has gone on to great things and is presently a cast member in Broadway's Rocky, understudying as Apollo Creed.
Okieriete , aka "Oak" also starred as Coalhouse Walker leading the Harlem chorus in NJYT's 2006 Award-winning production of Ragtime.
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[…] now on Broadway, Adam Rodgers is in American in Paris, Daisy Hobbs is in Aladdin, Okieriete Onaeodowan was in Rocky and is now in Hamilton, said Cynthia Meryl, Artistic Director of New Jersey Youth […]