Leslie Castay is delighted to be working again with dear friend and mentor Janet Shea.  A multiple Big Easy Award winner, she now lives in New Orleans after a 20 plus year career as a New York City based actress. Her Broadway credits include Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, 3Penny Opera (starring Sting), 42nd St, and numerous Off-Broadway, and National Touring productions. Locally she has garnered rave reviews with Le Petit (Grey Gardens, Merrily We Roll Along, Noises Off), Southern Rep (Next to Normal, Sweet Bird of Youth) Tulane Summer Lyric (Chicago, Company, Ragtime) and New Orleans Opera (Sweeney Todd). She has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, and with the New Orleans Symphony and New Orleans Opera. Her cabaret shows Unscripted, Food of Love, Old School, and Crazy World garnered great acclaim at Le Chat Noir, Tulane Shakes, Little Gem and Le Petit Theatre. Leslie now also works as a director, recently having directed Young Frankenstein and the Big Easy award winning Holiday Inn for JPAS. She directed and co-created Southern Rep’s hilarious original holiday musical, Mandatory Merriment which ran for three seasons. Film and TV credits include The Big Short, NCIS:New Orleans, Beautiful Creatures, Secrets of Sulphur Springs, Hulu Network’s Mike and as “Alicia Mayfair” on AMC’s Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches.