Age: 26
male
Ali Louis Bourzgui is a Moroccan American actor, singer, musician and songwriter known for his roles in musical theatre as Orpheus in Hadestown on Broadway and Tommy in Des McAnuff and Pete Townshend’s revival of The Who’s Tommy, receiving a Theatre World Award, Jeff Award (Performer in a Leading Role), an Outer Critics Circle and a Drama League nomination for the role. He is also a singer/songwriter and 1/2 of the band Resident Lightweight. Originally from Pittsfield, MA, Ali holds nature, art and community dear. When not performing you can usually find him hiking, gardening, attempting to find his next album obsession, playing guitar and writing music with his band. He graduated from the Ithaca College B.F.A. Musical Theatre program and has worked regionally at venues such as The Goodman Theatre, Barrington Stage Co., Theaterworks Hartford, & Berkshire Theatre Group. He’s also a proud Arab artist, working actively to increase Arab American/Muslim representation in media in order to educate and dismantle years of anti-arab rhetoric. As the most underrepresented community in the American Theatre it is our collective job to tell the nuanced beautiful stories of Arab culture to fight years of dehumanization and silencing.
Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
