Screen Actors Guild Foundation and Backstage have partnered for a filmed Conversations series in celebration of this year’s Emmy nominees. Please join us on August 12th with Tituss Burgess, Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy for his performance in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. We'll be screening the episode "Peeno Noir" followed by a Q&A.
SYNOPSIS
After living in a cult for fifteen years, Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) decides to reclaim her life and start over in New York City. Armed with just a backpack, light-upsneakers, and a couple of way-past-due library books, she’s ready to take on aworld she didn’t even think existed anymore. Wide-eyed but resilient, nothing is going to stand in her way. She quickly finds a new job (working for 30 Rock's Jane Krakowski), a new roommate (Tituss Burgess, 30 Rock),and a new beginning.
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Tituss Burgess - Actor
Actor, musician, and writer Tituss Burgess is quickly emerging as one of the industry’s most versatile and dynamic performers, his work in television and theater generating both critical and commercial acclaim.
Burgess can currently be seen in the first season of Netflix’s Emmy Award nominated comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. For his performance as ‘Titus Andremedon’, Burgess received a 2015 Emmy nomination for “Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy”, a 2015 Critics’ Choice TV award nomination, and a 2015 Webby award nomination. Co-created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, the show also stars Ellie Kemper, Jane Krakowski, and Carol Kane. The series’ second season will begin production in New York in the fall of 2015.
Burgess first worked with Fey and Carlock on their Emmy Award winning NBC comedy series 30 Rock. Burgess played ‘D’Fwan,’ Sherry Shepherd’s character’s hairdresser and cohort, and became a fan-favorite in the series’ fifth and sixth seasons.
His additional television credits include A Gifted Man, Blue Bloods, and Royal Pains.
A stage veteran, Burgess made his Broadway debut in 2005 as ‘Eddie’ in Good Vibrations. Since, he has introduced memorable roles in the original Broadway casts of Jersey Boys as 'Hal Miller' and The Little Mermaid as 'Sebastian the Crab,' as well as starred as 'Nicely-Nicely Johnson’ in the 2009 revival of Guys and Dolls.
Burgess is also an acclaimed singer and songwriter, and has headlined at major symphonies and top cabaret venues throughout the world. His solo album “Comfortable," on which he wrote the music and lyrics for ten of the eleven songs, was released in 2012.
Burgess currently resides in New York City.
