Ed Dixon

Ed Dixon (born September 2, 1948 in Oklahoma) is an American character actor, playwright and composer. Dixon has appeared in numerous Broadway shows, including No, No, Nanette, The King of Schnorrers, The Three Musketeers, Les Misérables (the show's 2nd and longest running Thenardier), Cyrano, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Iceman Cometh, The Best Man, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Sunday in the Park with George, Mary Poppins and Anything Goes. In 1987 he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his performance in the musical Shylock, for which he wrote the book, music, and lyrics.[1] Dixon was a soloist in the Kennedy Center's premiere production of Leonard Bernstein's Mass and is on the recording conducted by the composer. He can also be heard on the cast recording of the 2001 national tour of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Dixon toured as the Governor opposite Ann-Margret as Miss Mona and Gary Sandy as Ed Earl Dodd. He was nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for best supporting actor in a musical in Kathy Lee Gifford's Saving Aimee and won the 2010 Helen Hayes Award for best supporting actor in a musical for his turn as Max in the Sunset Boulevard, a role he also played in the 1996 US tour. For his creation, Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose off-Broadway, he won the 2017 Drama Desk Award for best solo performance. In 2018, he played Judge Turpin opposite Terrence Mann in the title role of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre.