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 a career spanning 40 years in the United States, Puerto Rico 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), Spain, and Venezuela.
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.
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.
Other NYC credits include Paul Simon’s THE CAPEMAN on Broadway, as a featured soloist in Broadway Cares’ LATIN RHYTHMS (with the late, great Chita Rivera), and THE MAPMAKER’S OPERA at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
2010 - present
2010 - present
In 1998, he made his New York cabaret debut with CABARET CARAMBA!, which was featured in TIMEOUT magazine and nominated by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets in the category of 'outstanding male debut'.
And in 2010 his multi-media, live actor and shadow puppetry piece with music, BEFORE ICARUS FELL played at the Theatre Row Theatres, thanks to a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation.
As a freelance voiceover performer, he has added his voice to literally hundreds of English and Spanish commercials;
• recorded audiobooks such as Ricky Martin's autobiography YO, Pam Muñoz Ryan's THE DREAMER, for which he won an AudioFile Magazine Earphone Award, as well as the Spanish version of Barack Obama's OF THEE I SING for the Library of Congress;
• voiced characters in the animated series ALMA'S WAY and BIG MOUTH;
• performed on 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.