Steven Pasquale

Pasquale was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He attended the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, as a theatre major for a semester, before moving to New York. He has starred in numerous theatre productions; for example, he created the role of Fabrizio in the original Seattle cast of The Light in the Piazza, but his work on Rescue Me prevented him from reprising the role on Broadway. As he has been quoted, "That was the most heartbreaking thing that I\'ve ever experienced professionally." \n', ' He played the role of Sheriff Joe Sutter in the musical The Spitfire Grill, in which he introduced the song "Forest For the Trees". He then scored the lead role of Chris in the 1998 American tour of Miss Saigon. In 2002, he played Robbie Faye in the New York production of A Man of No Importance and Archibald Craven at the Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation\'s concert of The Secret Garden, alongside Michael Arden, Jaclyn Nedenthal, Will Chase, Max von Essen, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti, whom he later married.\n', ' In April 2009, the record label PS Classics released his first album, Somethin\' Like Love, a jazz album produced by Jessica Molaskey and John Pizzarelli. He launched his official website in February 2009 and starred in the Broadway play reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute.[citation needed]\n', '