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John Sanders is an American actor and voice actor. His stage work includes Broadway productions of Peter and the Starcatcher, Matilda the Musical, and Groundhog Day, as well as the national tour of Peter and the Starcatcher, in which he played Black Stache.
Early life and education
[edit]Sanders studied theater arts at the University of Oregon, where he worked in the Pocket Playhouse and attended the Clark Honors College.[1].
Theatre
[edit]After university, Sanders worked in Chicago theatre for eleven years[2]. He received Joseph Jefferson Award nominations for his performances in Burying the Bones[3] and Arrangement for Two Violas[4].
Sanders joined the Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher as an understudy for Black Stache and later played the role in the national tour[5][6]. His touring performance received attention in several regional and national outlets[7][8][9]. Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times highlighted the character's hand-loss scene, while the Minnesota Star Tribune described Sanders as "over-the-top funny" in the role[7], and BroadwayWorld called him "one of the greats of the current stage." [10]
He subsequently appeared in Matilda the Musical on Broadway, and he originated the role of Ned Ryerson in the Broadway production of Groundhog Day[1][11]. Writing in The New Yorker, Michael Schulman noted that the musical expanded Ryerson with a backstory that gave the character added poignancy[12].
In 2017, Sanders played director Stuart Vaughan in Richard Nelson's Illyria at the Public Theater[13][14][15]. The Village Voice called Vaughan Joseph Papp's "most valuable artistic collaborator" and wrote that Sanders tempered the role's careerism with a "wistful ache"[16]
Screen and voice work
[edit]His television work includes Sucession, Billions, Elementary and Iron Fist[17]. He portrayed architect Stanford White in HBO's The Gilded Age[18]. His voice work has included commercials and video games characters in Marvel Rivals, Minecraft and Batman.
- 1 2 "Luck and a Broadway Duck". OregonNews. 2017-10-01. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ Serviss, Naomi (2017-05-10). "BWW Interview: GROUNDHOG DAY's John Sanders Is Happy to Repeat Himself, Repeat Himself". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ "Bella Itkin and Court Theatre to be Honored at Nov. 1 Jeff Awards". Playbill. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ "Celebrating Best of Chicago's Non-Union Shows, Jeff Citations Handed Out June 13". Playbill. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ "John Sanders (Performer)". Playbill. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ "Baddie role in 'Peter and the Starcatcher' hooked John Sanders". Los Angeles Times. 2013-12-29. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- 1 2 Preston, Rohan (2014-03-12). "The much-hyped Broadway production of 'Peter and the Starcatcher' opened Tuesday at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis". Archived from the original on 2025-06-19. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ "Lively 'Peter and the Starcatcher' make us believers again". Los Angeles Times. 2013-12-07. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ Pressley, Nelson (2014-01-31). "Tony-winning 'Peter and the Starcatcher' takes flight at the Kennedy Center". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ Kerestan, Greg (2014-05-22). "BWW Reviews: Star Stuff and Star Turns at Heinz Hall in PETER AND THE STARCATCHER". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ "Broadway Cast & Staff Search | IBDB". www.ibdb.com. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ Schulman, Michael (2017-04-18). "The Tao of "Groundhog Day," Onstage". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ Brantley, Ben (2017-10-31). "Review: 'Illyria' Eavesdrops on a Young Joe Papp and Friends". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ "The Struggle to Get Shakespeare Into Central Park". The Daily Beast. 2017-10-30. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ Stasio, Marilyn (2017-11-04). "Off Broadway Review: 'Illyria' by Richard Nelson". Variety. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ Scherstuhl, Alan (2017-11-03). "Watching Richard Nelson's "Illyria" Is Like Having an Internship With Joe Papp in 1958". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ "Broadway Actor 'John Sanders' Shares Experiences on Stage and Behind the Camera – BELLA Magazine". bellamag.co. Archived from the original on 2022-12-05. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ Lerner, Jamie (2022-01-26). "'The Gilded Age' Features Architect Stanford White, a Figure of Scandal and Secrets". Distractify. Retrieved 2026-09-18.