Brandon Jacob Uranowitz is an Americanstage and television actor, best known for his roles as Adam Hochberg in An American in Paris and Mendel Weisenbachfeld in the 2016 Broadway revival of Falsettos. He was a 2015 Tony Award nominee for his featured performance in An American in Paris, and received subsequent Tony Award nominations in 2017 for his featured performance in Falsettos and in 2019 for his featured performance in Burn This.
Uranowitz trained at NYU and had roles in Off-Broadway productions prior to being cast in Rent. He was part of the ensemble cast of Evita at the Paper Mill Playhouse, held the roles of Richard in Richard III and the King of France in All's Well That Ends Well at Classical Studio, the role of Cardinal Bellarmin in Galileo at The Skirball Center, the role of Dante in Only Children at The Abe Burrows Theatre, the role of Feste in Twelfth Night at the Kirk Theatre, and the role of Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs / Broadway Bound in 2010 at the Old Globe Theatre. His first major role after NYU was an ensemble member and later Mark in the national tour of Rent. In the jukebox musicalBaby It's You!, Uranowitz played the role of Stanley, the blind composer and son of Florence Greenberg as played by Beth Leavel. In their review of the musical, Variety noted that the "show is continually perked up by......Brandon Uranowitz." In 2014, he joined the original cast of the stage adaption of An American in Paris as composer Adam Hochberg. The show premiered in Paris at Théâtre du Châtelet in December 2014 and transferred to Broadway, opening in April 2015. He departed the show on August 7, 2016. He also portrayed Mrs. White in the 30th Anniversary one time tribute performance of the classic film Clue in December 2015. Uranowitz joined the first revival of 1992 musical Falsettos, which opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre on October 27, 2016, as a limited engagement. He portrayed Mendel, a psychiatrist, opposite Christian Borle as Marvin, Andrew Rannells as Whizzer, and Stephanie J. Block as Trina. For his performance, he received a 2017 Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Uranowitz appeared in the revue Prince of Broadway, which opened on Broadway in August 2017 and closed in October 2017. The revue featured the work of the director and producer Harold Prince.
Television and film
Uranowitz has had minor appearances in the television series , Inside Amy Schumer,The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and horror-musical film Stage Fright.
Recognition
Of Uranowitz's appearance as Feste in Twelfth Night, MusicOMH wrote "Uranowitz rocks it......playing the fool character with restrained glee.", PlayShakespeare.com wrote, "Brandon Uranowitz’ effortless command of the language and, again, his willingness to explore his characters’ depth makes him absolutely spellbinding." For his performance, Uranowitz received a PlayShakespeare.com Falstaff Award nomination for 'Best Supporting Performance, Male'. He was nominated for a Featured Actor Tony Award in 2015 for his role as Adam in An American in Paris. His turn as Mendel in Falsettos received rave reviews. He was called "warmly funny and convincingly neurotic" as Mendel by the New York Times, "wholly endearing" by Entertainment Weekly, and The Hollywood Reporter said "Uranowitz is a worthy successor to the wonderful Chip Zien in the original production. He flirts with the stereotypical view of a Jewish therapist only marginally less messed-up than his patients, while also finding the truth in a compassionate man who has to convince himself of his right to be happy". Vulture said that Uranowitz offered "an unusually sexy Mendel". Of Uranowitz's contribution as part of the ensemble cast in the Julius Shulman's 1998 production The Broadway Kids Sing Broadway, The New York Times wrote he "was a testament to youthful enthusiasm and lung power".
Personal life
He is openly gay. As of July 2016, Uranowitz is in a relationship with actor Zachary Prince. They met at the audition for Baby It's You! and Prince was subsequently cast as Uranowitz's understudy.
