Jeremiah Kissel

Jeremiah Kissel is thrilled to be back onstage with the the Pops, where previous performances include The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, Casey at the Bat, The Composer is Dead, Here Comes a Bold Umbrellaphant, From the Earth to the Moon and Beyond, A Christmas Carol, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Polar Express, and, of course, Star Wars: The Story in Music. With other orchestras he has performed The Carnival of the Animals, Ellis Island: The Dream of America, Peter and the Wolf, The Wizard of Menlo Park, A Kennedy Portrait, and L’Histoire du Soldat. With the BSO he has performed The Defiant Requiem, Porgy and Bess, and Bluebeard’s Castle. A forty-year veteran of Boston’s professional stages, Kissel has played leading roles for the Huntington, American Repertory, New Repertory, and Merrimack Repertory theaters, as well as the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, the Lyric Stage, Shear Madness, and various out-of-town companies passing through Boston. Most recent roles include Bernie Madoff, Cyrano, Tevye, Scrooge, and Richard Nixon. Screen credits include The Town, The Fighter, Joy, Stronger, Castle Rock, Body of Proof, and HBO's Julia. Kissel is the winner of several Norton awards, several IRNEs, an Arts Impulse, and a Helen Hayes Award, and in 2003 he received Boston’s highest onstage recognition, the Norton Prize for sustained excellence.