Gizel recently wrapped a substantial role in Lin Manuel Miranda’s upcoming Netflix film, Tick, Tick…Boom! She made her Broadway debut as Nessarose in Wicked. Off-Broadway: Avenue Q (first ethnic actor to portray Kate Monster), Miss You Like Hell (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations), Big River (Encores!), and Party People. Starred at NYS&F in Alice By Heart; Williamstown in Marsha Norman’s Secret Soldiers. National tour: West Side Story. TV: NBC’s Law & Order SVU, HBO’s Divorced, Neighbors (web series). @gizeljimenezofficial https://linktr.ee/gizeljimenez
Full Credits:
Broadway: Nessarose in Wicked (dir. Joe Mantello)
National Tour: Rosalia in West Side Story (dir. David Saint)
Off-Broadway: Misty in Cornelia Street (Atlantic Theatre, dir. Neil Pepe), Mary Jane in Reefer Madness (New 42nd Street Studios, dir. David Carpenter), Kate Monster in Avenue Q (New World Stages, dir. Jason Moore), Olivia in Miss You Like Hell (Public Theatre, dir. Lear DeBessonet – Drama Desk Nomination), Susan Wilkes in Encores!/Big River (NY City Center, dir. Lear DeBessonet), Clara in Party People (Public Theatre, dir. Liesl Tommy), Malina in Unseamly (Urban Stages, dir. Sarah Carlsen)
Workshop/Reading: Juliette Brooks in The Heart (New York Stage and Film), Marian in Hood (TBD Theatricals), Charles in Hart Island (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley), Jade in 38 Minutes (dir. Josh Rhodes), Princess Piper in Bliss (dir. Sheryl Kaller), Various in Tick…Tick…Boom (dir. Lin-Manuel Miranda), Cheshire Cat in Alice By Heart (New York Stage and Film), Eurydice in Hadestown (New York Theatre Workshop, dir. Rachel Chavkin), Ruza in Suffs (dir. Leigh Silverman)
Regional Theatre: Lucy and Others in Dracula, A Comedy of Errors (Old Globe/White Theater), Dawn in Waitress (Ogunquit Playhouse), Piper in Bliss (5th Avenue Theater), Peron’s Mistress in Evita (Asolo Repertory Theatre, dir. Josh Rhodes), Ado Annie in Oklahoma (Goodspeed Opera House, dir. Jenn Thompson), Cool Girl in Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse, dir. Alex Timbers), Caroline in Theory of Relativity (Goodspeed Terris Theatre, dir. Brian Hill), DeLee in Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Capital Repertory Company, dir. Richard J. Hinds), Mary in Rosario and the Gypsies (Theater for the New City, dir. Eduardo Machado), Vanessa in In The Heights (Walnut Street Theater, dir. Bruce Lumpkin), Vanessa in In The Heights (Westchester Broadway Theater, dir. John Fanelli)
Film/Television: Avi in The Village Vale (Dir. Lisa Rothe), Mel in Bad Monkey (Warner Bros. Television), Cristin in Tick Tick Boom (Netflix; Dir. Lin-Manuel Miranda), Dexter: New Blood (Showtime), Divorce (HBO), Law & Order SVU (NBCUniversal), Night of Too Many Stars (Comedy Central), The Tale of Timmy Two Chins (Scenarios USA)
Theme Park: Princess Anna in Frozen LIVE (Hyperion Theater, dir. Liesl Tommy)
Concerts/Benefit Performances: National Anthem (Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY), Carmen’s Habanera (Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA), The Theory of Relativity (54 Below, New York, NY)
Podcast: Dolores (prod. Daphne Rubin-Vega and Bobby Cannevale)
Training: BFA in Musical Theater, New World School of the Arts/University of Florida, American Theater Wing- Springboard NYC 2011 (Kathleen Marshall, Seth Rudetsky, John Ruocco, David Caparelliotis, Susan Msiner, Jodi Collins, Dani Super, Stuart Gelles)
Special Skills: Incredible Monkey Face: Male & Female, Dialects: New York, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Standard British, Cockney, Southern, Dance: Salsa, Hip-hop, Zumba, Jazz, Ballet, Valid Driver’s License & Passport