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Stage actor Brandon Victor Dixon established himself as both a dynamic presence in major musical theater productions, including Tony-nominated turns in "The Color Purple" and "Shuffle Along," as well as a producer with such Tony-winning shows as the 2014 revival of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" to his credit.

Born in Gaithersburg, Mississippi in 1981, Dixon participated in both sports and school productions while a student at St.

Albans School, and continued to pursue his theater education at Columbia University, where he won the I.A.L. Diamond Award for Achievement in the Arts.

Dixon also won a 1999 scholarship to attend the British American Drama Academy at Balloil College in Oxford, England; he returned to America to make his professional stage debut in 2003 as the adult Simba in the national tour of "The Lion King."

Two years later, he earned his first Tony nomination for creating the role of Harpo in the 2005 Broadway run of "The Color Purple."

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