Episode 20: Telly Leung
Theater People
Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen
4.8 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2014
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Margo Cybert. I'm having a solo concert at 54 below on October 15th at 930, |
| 0:07.0 | featuring a lot of songs that you know, some songs that you don't from new musical theater composers. |
| 0:13.0 | It's a really great night, so I hope to see you there. |
| 0:15.0 | Check out our website for details. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Annalee Ashford. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi, this is Queen Leslie. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Robin de Hesuzeus. Queen Leslie Margarita. Hi, I'm Eden Lee Ashford. Hi, this is Queen Leslie. I'm Robin DeHsouz. Queen Leslie Margarita. Hi, I'm Eden Espinoza. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Anthony Rap. Hi, I'm Laura Osniss. I'm Katie Finneran. Hi, I'm Tanya Pinkin. I'm Karen |
| 0:28.7 | Livo and you are listening to The Theater People podcast. Hello fellow theater people. Welcome to episode 20 of the theater people podcast. I'm Patrick Hines, your host. |
| 0:44.9 | Today's guest, Telly Leung, is an extremely talented actor, dancer, singer, everyone knows that. |
| 0:50.6 | But you know how some people just have it all? Well, he's one of those guys. You see, he |
| 0:54.5 | discovered his performing gifts in high school, Stuyvesant High School, a super prestigious |
| 0:58.8 | high school here in New York City, which only admits kids with tremendous gifts in math and science. |
| 1:04.1 | So he's brilliant, handsome, and incredibly talented. His big break came in college, Carnegie |
| 1:09.2 | Mellon University, of course, where future Tony winner Billy Porter cast him as Bobby and company. |
| 1:14.7 | When the production was over, Billy made a call to his friends in New York who were casting the upcoming Broadway production of Flower Drum Song and got Telly an audition. |
| 1:22.2 | And wouldn't you know it, he booked the job. |
| 1:24.5 | From there, he was seen in rent, Pacific Overtures, and most recently in the Circle |
| 1:28.3 | in the Square production of Godspell. He was also cast as Angel in Rent at the Hollywood Bowl, |
| 1:33.4 | directed by Neil Patrick Harris, and he is also well known as Wes, one of the Dalton Academy |
| 1:38.1 | Warbillers on Glee. And now he's the head of his own production company. He's taken on the |
| 1:42.9 | role of producer for a new short musical film called Grind, |
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