Jim Brochu

Jim spent the better part of 2008 in New York City, starring in his Off-Broadway hit, "The Big Voice: God or Merman?" which the New York Times called, "Triumphant - a hilarious and utterly enthralling evening of musical theatre." In 2005, Jim was nominated by the Los Angeles Ovation Awards as Best Actor in a Musical for "The Big Voice", an honor he won from both the Palm Springs Desert Star Awards and the Valley Theatre League ADA Awards. "The Big Voice: God or Merman?" was also given the Ovation Award as Best Musical, presented to himself and composer-partner, Steve Schalchlin, by the legendary Jerry Herman. A native of Brooklyn, Jim produced his first show, a charity revue featuring the Bay Ridge neighborhood kids, at the age of thirteen and four years later was working on Broadway - selling orange drink at the back of the St. James Theatre during intermissions of "Hello, Dolly!" After studying drama at Carnegie-Mellon University, where his classmate was Stephen Schwartz, he returned