ANTHONY RAPP STAR OF RENT AND AUTHOR OF WITHOUT YOU

Anthony Rapp is best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in the Tony Award- winning rock opera Rent. A musical about Bohemians in the East Village of New York City, Rent explores the struggle with life, love and AIDS, and the impacts each has on America. He shared an OBIE (Off-Broadway) Award with the rest of the cast for the performance. After taking the show from Off-Broadway to Broadway to Chicago to London, Rapp reprised his role in the 2005 Sony Pictures motion picture of the same name. And in 2006, he wrote a national best seller detailing his experiences during Rent's original run – as well as his personal struggle with losing his mother to cancer entitled Without You: a Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent (Simon & Schuster). Additional Broadway roles include Precious Sons (for which he received the Outer Critics Circle Award), Six Degrees of Separation and the revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. His big-screen credits include: Adventures in Babysitting, School Ties, Dazed and Confused, Six Degrees of Separation, Road Trip, A Beautiful Mind, Danny Roane: First Time Director and Scaring the Fish. On television, Rapp has appeared in The Lazarus Man, The X-Files, The Beach Boys: An American Family, and Law & Order: SVU. In addition to acting and writing, Anthony Rapp creates music with his band, Albinokid, and released a solo CD, Look Around, in 2000. He serves on the board of the nonprofit organization Friends In Deed, and lives in New York City with his partner, Rodney To, and their three cats: Emma, Sebastian and Spike.