Barry Shafrin

Hailing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Barry is proud Midwestern boy who spent his formative years studying and performing at First Stage Children’s Theater. After summer intensives at Carnegie Mellon and Yale Universities, he ultimately decided to pursue a liberal arts education at Harvard University. While in Cambridge, he spent the majority of his time neglecting his studies and devoting himself to acting, designing, directing, and supporting the vibrant undergraduate theater scene, whether performing on the stage of the American Repertory Theater, or as part of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and Harvard Krokodiloes, Harvard’s oldest all-male a capella group.

After nabbing a BA in Pyschology with a minor in Theater, Barry headed to New York where has been thrilled to work and grow alongside mentors such as Craig Carnelia, Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Scott Freeman and John Tartaglia. He joined Actor’s Equity as the Cat in The Hat on the National Tour of Seussical and recently received a nomination from the Connecticut Critics Circle for his perfomance as Bobby Randall in Good News at the Goodspeed Opera House.