Brandon Victor Dixon to star in Kennedy Center’s “Next to Normal”

 Brandon Victor Dixon

Donna Reed Foundation Scholarship Award Alumnus

Tony-nominated actor Brandon Victor Dixon (Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, Shuffle Along…) will join the previously announced Rachel Bay Jones (Dear Evan Hansen) in the Kennedy Center's Broadway Center Stage production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal.

Michael Greif, who directed the original Broadway production of the hit musical, will stage the D.C. engagement, which runs January 29–February 3, 2020, in the Eisenhower Theater. Tony winner Jones will play Diana, the role created on Broadway by Tony winner Alice Ripley, with Dixon as her husband Dan. 

Dixon, from Gaithersburg, Maryland, was a 1999 Donna Reed scholarship finalist in musical theatre.