George Salazar

George Ernest Salazar is an American actor and singer born on March 7, 1986, in Kissimmee, Florida, of Filipino and Ecuadorian heritage. He earned a BFA in musical theatre from the University of Florida in 2008 and relocated to New York City shortly after graduating to pursue a professional acting career. His Broadway work spans from 2011 to 2019 and includes credits in Godspell, Be More Chill, and Barack on Broadway.

Salazar's professional career began in 2010 when he was cast as Otto in the second national tour of Spring Awakening, a production that traveled through the United States and Canada before closing in May 2011. That tour also earned him his Actors' Equity Association membership. In September 2011, he was cast in the 40th Anniversary Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell, where he served as the "Light of the World" soloist. The production opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre on November 7, 2011, ran for 30 previews and 264 performances, and closed on June 24, 2012. A cast album was recorded and released on Sh-K-Boom Records that same year, and the company made television appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman, The View, The Rosie Show, and the Tony Awards telecast.

Following Godspell, Salazar appeared in the Off-Broadway production of F#%king Up Everything in the spring of 2013, in which he both acted and served as the production's onstage drummer. He reprised that role in 2016 when the show was retitled Brooklyn Crush. In the summer of 2013, he joined The Public Theater's Off-Broadway production of Here Lies Love, directed by Alex Timbers, initially as an understudy before rejoining the cast in April 2014 for an open-ended commercial run that closed on January 4, 2015.

Salazar originated the role of Michael Mell in the musical adaptation of Ned Vizzini's Be More Chill at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 2015. He reprised the role in the Off-Broadway premiere at Signature Theatre Company from July to September 2018, and then brought the character to Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, where the production ran from February 14 to August 11, 2019. His performance earned him a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical in 2019. In 2016, he played Michael in the Off-Broadway revival of Tick, Tick... Boom! at the Acorn Theatre at Theater Row, running from October 20 to December 18. In 2017, he originated the roles of Grover and Mr. D in the Off-Broadway premiere of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, which ran from March 23 to May 6.

Later in 2019, Salazar starred as Seymour Krelborn in Little Shop of Horrors at the Pasadena Playhouse, running from September 17 to October 20. During that engagement, he appeared as a musical guest on The Late Late Show with James Corden, performing "Suddenly Seymour" alongside co-star Mj Rodriguez. In 2021, he played Musidorus in Head Over Heels at the Pasadena Playhouse from November 9 to December 12, marking his first stage role since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the first production to reopen the Pasadena Playhouse. In 2023, he starred as Milo Santos in the world premiere of The Bottoming Process by Nicholas Pilapil, produced by IAMA Theatre Company at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, a role he had originally developed in the company's Emerging Playwrights Lab.

On screen, Salazar had a recurring role as George Conway in the FX limited anthology series Impeachment: American Crime Story. In 2025, he made his feature film debut providing the voice and facial motion capture for Happy, one of the Seven Dwarfs, in Disney's live-action remake of Snow White. Salazar is also an experienced percussionist on both drumkit and cajón.