Jason Forbach

Jason Forbach whose “commanding tenor”- Kansas City Star with “charisma in spades” - Washington Post has a career ranging across the opera, symphony and Broadway stage. Jason recently concluded a box office record-breaking run as Henry Ford in the TONY Award winning Revival of Ragtime at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater. On Broadway, he also originated the role of The Crooner in A Wonderful World: A Louis Armstrong Musical, starred as Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, and as Enjolras in Les Miserables, where he reprised the role he played on the 25th Anniversary National Tour. Jason gained national notoriety when he stepped into the leading role of The Baker in the Broadway Revival of Into the Woods opposite Sara Bareilles on opening night, last minute, to high acclaim. He went on to repeat the same feat on its National Tour opposite Stephanie J. Block. As Rapunzel’s Prince on the National Tour, the LA Times stated, “The applause Jason Forbach and (Gavin Creel) received after finishing their gorgeous, hilarious duet of “Agony,” one of the high points of Into the Woods, was some of the loudest I’ve heard in my decades of theater going.” Jason has performed regionally with companies such as The Guthrie, Washington D.C. Shakespeare Theater Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, 5th Avenue Theater, The Kennedy Center, North Shore Music Theater, Sacramento Music Circus, Bucks County Playhouse and Theater Under the Stars. He has sung on the concert stage at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Omaha Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Gulf Coast Symphony, Plano Symphony, New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Abilene Philharmonic and on the opera stage with Boston Lyric Opera, Fresno Opera, Opera Boston and Central City Opera and was a regional semi-finalist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He has also performed on T.V.’s “Law and Order: SVU”, “FBI”, and “America’s Got Talent”.