South Carolina New Play Festival - Broadway Cabaret Phillip Boykin

This once-in-a-lifetime event is a combination of a cabaret-style performance paired with a behind-the-scenes interview with Broadway celebrity and Greenville native, Phillip Boykin. Phillip to share backstage stories from working on the Broadway productions of Hadestown, The Music Man, Porgy and Bess and sing songs from his illisutrious in an intimate cabaret setting.

Boykin was nominated for the Tony Award, as well as the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Crown in the Broadway revival of Porgy and Bess. Boykin was also featured in On the Town, in the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George where he made Broadway history as the first African-American Boatman/Lee Randolph in the production, Boykin played the role of Tonton Julian in the Revival of Once on This Island, which opened on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre, in 2022,he was featured in the Hugh Jackman led Broadway revival of The Music Man as Olin Britt and a Traveling Salesman and he is currently starring in the Broadway production of Hadestown as Hades. He is the founder and director of "The NYGospel Brothers", a gospel quartet that travels around the world spreading the good news and he was seen in the films Freedom starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Top Five starring Chris Rock, and Easter Mysteries an oratorio-musical written by John O’Boyle. In 2019, he was inducted into the South Carolina Theatre Association Hall of Fame following a performance of the Once on this Island tour in his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina.