Heidi Gleichauf

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HEIDI GLEICHAUF (Performer) has toured nationwide with Broadway’s Next Hit Musical since 2020. 22 states and counting! She has worked as an improviser and interactive performer for companies like CAMP, Strategic Entertainment, Sterling Renaissance Faire and “Bloom” with HERO NYC. You can also see her as a vocalist on Top View Tours’ “Tea Around Town” in NYC. You may recognize Heidi’s voice from video content she created and performed for “TBTV Toy Adventures” and Dreamworks TV on YouTube, with her top performing video at 9 million views!  Her most buoyant gig has been sailing the European seas as “The Artist” with Virgin Voyages. When she’s not onstage, you can find her saving sidewalk worms and finding four-leaf clovers. BFA Hofstra. IG @heidsg

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Upcoming Shows Featuring Heidi Gleichauf

Mallory Kinney

MALLORY KINNEY (Performer) is an actor/improvisor/musician/director/producer and full-time goblin. With a long history of performing, creating, and teaching, Mallory has enjoyed producing and playing in several NYC-based improv/comedy shows, including the "Smart and Lovely Show," and currently finds excessive amounts of joy performing and teaching Improvisation in NYC at Improvolution and all around the country with BNHM! Check out her instagram for more fun stuff: @yesandmallory

Shows Featuring Mallory Kinney

Deb Rabbai

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DEB RABBAI (Co-Artistic Director, Co-Producer, Performer) is an original member and co-creator of Broadway’s Next H!T Musical.  A native New Yorker, Deb has worked as an actor, improviser, singer and voiceover artist for the last twenty five years.  Deb became the Co-Artistic Director of BNHM in 2009 and has proudly witnessed its progress into the hilarious hit it is today.  A graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC, Deb spent ten years performing and teaching improvisation with Freestyle Repertory Theatre (TheatreSports New York),  five years performing with ComedySportz NY and seven years with the Chicago City Limits national touring company. Deb is a highly experienced teacher of improvisation and acting, having worked at NYU, Marymount Manhattan College, The American Comedy Institute, NY Film Academy and American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC. Deb successfully created programs that teach curriculum through improvisation – these programs have been integrated into public schools in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.  Deb has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and in national commercials for MasterCard, Wendy’s and Zyrtec.  Deb has done countless voiceovers, ranging from radio and TV advertisements, to video games and anime films. For more information, please visit www.DebRabbai.com

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Videos of Deb Rabbai in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

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Reviews Mentioning Deb Rabbai

“Deb Rabbai, who also serves as co-producer and co-artistic director for the group, creatively transported the audience to a magical world in, “I Graduated Today,” and seamlessly sang her improvised lyrics with confidence that made me honestly question whether or not this was actually made up on the spot. ”

— Sally Henry, Broadway World

“Deb Rabbai opened the night; her song title was “Des Moines Blues.” Rabbai, also a co-creator, instantly decided the song Des Moines Blues came from a musical Snow Again, about a Des Moines model whose plane flight to bigger and better things is cancelled because of a freak May snowstorm. Rabbai has quite a set of pipes and was dropping lines that were perfectly timed.”

— Brooke Bridenstine, BroadwayWorld.com

“Rabbai, the most skilled and thoughtful of the cast, found herself with “A Rope and Hope.” She turned the phrase into a gleeful bit on airplane travel in the current times. In her other theatrical work she is a voice for animated features and voice-over work. It showed. ”

— David Siegel, DC Metro News

“The comedy improv in “Broadway’s Next Hit Musical” moved from excellent to inspired Friday night at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall when Deb Rabbai and Rob Schiffmann took off their shoes and socks, pressed their bare feet together and sang a love duet. ”

— Steve Barnes, TimesUnion

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Jeff Scherer

JEFF SCHERER (Performer) is a writer and comedian living in Brooklyn. He has been performing improv comedy since 2002 in New York City and around the country, primarily at the Upright Citizens Brigade, Chicago City Limits and the People’s Improv Theater. In 2024, his musical improv group Vern celebrated its tenth anniversary. He has been a contestant on Jeopardy! and Cash Cab, and a “+1” on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He is the writer of four screenplays, two plays, and two children's books, for which he is patiently waiting to get paid.

Upcoming Shows Featuring Jeff Scherer

Stefan Schick

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STEFAN SCHICK (Performer) has been a member of Chicago City Limits (2008 and 2009 MAC Award Winner, Best Comedy/Improv Group) since 2003, first with its National Touring Company and currently with its Resident Company.  He also performs with the longform improv group Stray, and has appeared in numerous plays, sketch shows and short films in NYC. Television credits include TBS and the NY Television Festival. Thanks to BNHM, love to AF.  Look Theo and Eloise, daddy's a llama!

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Upcoming Shows Featuring Stefan Schick

Videos of Stefan Schick in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

This is a video of Stefan Schick & Kobi Libii's first act song from the May 31st, 2013 performance of Broadway's Next Hit Musical at The Triad, NYC.

Broadway's Next Hit Musical usually improvises songs from improvised musicals. But with this series we improvise a song from a Tony-nominated musical, BRIGHT STAR! Stefan Schick turns on his Steve Martin in order to turn down the moon! Head to BroadwaysNextHitMusical.com to find out when we'll be performing near you!

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Audio of Stefan Schick in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

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Rob Schiffmann

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ROB SCHIFFMANN (Co-Artistic Director, Co-Producer, Performer) has worked and toured as a professional actor,  improviser, and musician for over twenty five years. As a two-time MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Award winner and the recipient of the 2011 INNY (Improvisation News) Award for Best Improv Coach, Rob’s musical and improv talents are known across the country. Rob performed regularly with Chicago City Limits, NYCs longest running comedy improv show, before joining Broadway’s Next Hit Musical and eventually becoming the co-artistic director.. When Rob is not making audiences laugh all over the world with BNHM, he can be found emceeing corporate events for major business organizations such as Bank of America, Microsoft, Cartier, and Pfizer. The New York Times called Rob “fabulously perfect” and the New York Post says”I don’t know whether he’s more of a genius as a comedic performer or a comic writer!“ Rob has showcased his skills on The Daily Download and The CBS Early Show. Rob has also released two albums of original songs with his song-writing partner for their  acoustic-pop band, The Hillary Step, for which he is the main writer, lead singer, guitarist, bass player, keyboardist  and Music Director. For more information, please visit www.robschiffmann.com

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Videos of Rob Schiffmann in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

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Reviews of Rob Schiffmann in Broadway's Next Hit Musical

“Easily the highlight of the evening was co-producer/co-artistic director Rob Schiffman. His creative mind is full of rhymes and childlike creativity that was refreshing. He listened to his fellow actors brilliantly, so much so that he could sing in harmony or descant with them and (usually) successfully made a well-structured musical number. The entire time, I could not decide whether he should go into writing or acting, because the former would seem a waste of a brilliant character actor, and the latter a waste of a brilliant writer. Thus, I believe he has found his niche in improvisational musicals. I will say that his vocals were wanting at multiple times, but this is the first case in which I can genuinely say that such a flaw didn’t matter at all. Particularly, he and Grant read each other very well, to the point that their scenes together seemed rehearsed. The scenes that they shared were the highlight.”

— Sally Henry, Broadway World

“Deb Rabbai and Rob Schiffmann were sharper than a pound of cheddar cheese.”

— Patrick Hickey Jr, ReviewFix.com

“And as it turns out, a show about an Iowa model can hinge on the evil ways of a serpent like devil, hilariously played by Rob Schiffmann, whose weakness is frigid temperatures.”

— Brooke Bridenstine, Broadway World

Pat Swearingen

PAT SWEARINGEN (Performer) iFrom "As You Like It" to "How To Succeed in Business", Pat Swearingen is a classically trained actor who honed his comedy chops at the renowned Peoples Improv Theater in New York City where he still performs and teaches regularly. Check out Pat Swearingen Comedy Acting Reel 2024 (youtube.com) and hire him for all the things!

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Missa Thompson

MISSA THOMPSON (Performer) hails from Cleveland, where she has been performing since early childhood, starring in familiar favorites such as The Wiz and Bubbling Brown Sugar. In addition to her love of acting, Missa is also a fitness enthusiast and vegan foodie.

Upcoming Shows Featuring Missa Thompson