Broadway’s Terrence Mann to Host Connecticut Critics Circle Awards

Three-time Tony Award-nominee Terrence Mann will be master of ceremonies for the 27th annual Connecticut Critics Circle Awards 7:30 pm Monday, June 26 at Sacred Heart University’s Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfield. A private reception will precede the awards show.

The event, which celebrates the best in professional theater in the state, is free and open to the public. At the ceremony, Paulette Haupt, founding artistic director of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference in Waterford, will be honored with the Connecticut Critics Circle’s Tom Killen Award, given in recognition of her 40 years of extraordinary achievement and service to Connecticut theater.

Last year’s top honorees -- Yale Repertory Theatre’s Indecent and Hartford Stage’s Anastasia -- are currently on Broadway.

Mann is artistic director of the Nutmeg Summer Series at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He received Tony nominations for his roles as Javert in Les Miserables, as the Beast in Beauty and the Beast and as King Charles in the revival of Pippin. He also originated the role of Rum Tum Tugger in the Broadway production of Cats.

His Broadway debut was in 1980 in Barnum. Other Broadway credits include The Scarlet Pimpernel, Rags, Getting Away with Murder, Lennon, The Rocky Horror Show, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, The Addams Family, Finding Neverland and last season’s Tuck Everlasting. He was in the original off-Broadway production of Assassins.

Mann also has a recurring role in TV’s “Sense8.” Other television roles include the role of Earl Boyd in “All My Children.”

In film, Mann played bounty hunter Ug in the four “Critters” films. Other movie roles include  “A Chorus Line” and “A Circle on the Cross.”

He has also acted and starred in productions at UConn, including Les Miserables in Concert, Peter Pan, Man of La Mancha and My Fair Lady. Mann will direct the first show of the Nutmeg season, 1776, with performances starting June 1.

A graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts, he is a professor of musical theater at Western Carolina University in North Carolina. He is married to actress Charlotte D’Amboise.