About Tony Chiroldes
A bilingual, New York-based actor, singer, and voiceover performer, TONY CHIROLDES is an original Broadway cast member of the award-winning musical IN THE HEIGHTS by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes. In fact, he can also be heard singing in the movie soundtracks of IN THE HEIGHTS, VIVO, and WEST SIDE STORY.
In a career spanning 39 years in the US and abroad, Tony has performed at Arena Stage (DC), Chatelet Theatre (Paris, France), Milwaukee Rep, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Portland Center Stage, Broadway Sacramento, Westport Country Playhouse (CT), City Theatre Company (Pittsburgh), Geva Theatre (Rochester), Puerto Rico, Canary Islands, and Venezuela.
Other NYC credits include Paul Simon’s THE CAPEMAN, THE MAPMAKER’S OPERA, and as a featured soloist in BROADWAY CARES’ LATIN RHYTHMS with the late, great Chita Rivera.
Guest-starring roles on TV include MANIFEST (Netflix), AMERICAN HORROR STORY: NYC (Hulu), and HBO Latino's HABLA. Plus, he was the Royal Hulamouse in MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD.
2010 - present
2010 - present
In 1998, he made his New York cabaret debut with CABARET CARAMBA!, which was nominated by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets in the category of 'outstanding male debut' as well as featured in TIMEOUT New York magazine.
His multi-media, live actor and shadow puppetry piece with music, BEFORE ICARUS FELL played at the Theatre Row Theatres in November 2010, thanks to a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation.
In Puerto Rico, this son of a Cuban singer and a red-headed actress -- though he
is not 'Little Ricky Ricardo' -- performed in all media, including the Spanish-language premieres of MASS APPEAL and THE NORMAL HEART - and founded one of PRs premier theatre companies, Teatruras.
As a freelance voiceover performer, he has added his voice to literally hundreds of English and Spanish commercials; audiobooks such as Ricky Martin's autobiography YO, Pam Muñoz Ryan's THE DREAMER, for which he won an AudioFile Magazine Earphone Award, THE DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ by Carlos Fuentes, as well as the Spanish version of Barack Obama’s OF THEE I SING for the Library of Congress; the animated series ALMA’S WAY; and video games such as GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY, in which he voiced DJ Pepe Espantoso, BIOSHOCK and RED DEAD REDEMPTION. For 20+ years, he performed simultaneous translation into Spanish on HBO's REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL.