About the show.
Broadway’s Podcast, “The Fabulous Invalid”, presents essential conversations with a curated roster of the best, most important, and innovative theatre-makers working today. Put on your headphones and join theatre savant Jamie DuMont, writer and critic Rob Russo, and Tony Award nominee Jennifer Simard as they get up-close with the most prominent people in the theatre, from actors, to writers, directors, designers and everyone in between.
The podcast takes its name from the title of a 1938 backstage play by Kaufman and Hart that has since become a loving nickname for Broadway itself—always deemed on the verge of decline, yet always bouncing back: the fabulous invalid!
“The Fabulous Invalid” is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network, the premiere digital destination for everyone, everywhere who loves theatre and the performing arts.
meet the hosts
Clockwise from Top Left: Jamie Du Mont, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Rob Russo and Jennifer Simard.
Jamie Du Mont (co-producer, co-host) has sold luxury Australian sheets; designed souvenir t-shirts; cooked for heads of state, movie stars, and – most notably – a very privileged pet on the Upper East Side. For the better part of the last decade, he has planned events ranging from two to ten-thousands guests in every New York City venue imaginable. But it was his career in the theatre, working on a string of flops that rivals the wall at Joe Allen, that continues to haunt him to this very day. Twitter @jamiedumont
Jennifer Simard (co-host, seasons 1-2) is a Tony Award, four-time Drama Desk Award, three-time Drama League Award and Lucille Lortel Award nominee, who currently plays the role of Sarah in the Broadway revival of Company. Other Broadway credits include: Mean Girls; Disaster! (Tony nomination); Hello, Dolly!; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; and the companies of Sister Act and Shrek the Musical. Off-Broadway credits include the original companies of Forbidden Broadway: SVU; The Thing About Men; and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Film credits include The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Wish You Were Dead and Sisters. Television credits include: “Girls 5eva”, “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The King of Queens”, and “Younger.” www.jennifersimard.com Twitter @simardjennifer Instagram @thejennifersimard
Rob Russo (co-producer, co-host) is a producer, writer, and host. From 2017 to 2021, he served as a writer and theatre critic covering New York’s performing arts scene for Stage Left. A lifelong theatregoer and political junkie, and lawyer by trade, he began his career in politics and public service, and has worked as a close aide to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton through two presidential campaigns, four years at the U.S. Department of State, and now in private life. Instagram/Twitter @StageLeft_NYC
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer (guest co-host, season 1) recently starred as Delia in Beetlejuice on Broadway (Drama Desk Award nomination). Other Broadway credits include: Something Rotten, Elf, Sondheim on Sondheim, Legally Blonde, A Catered Affair (Drama Desk Award nomination), and Hairspray. Off-Broadway credits include the world premiere of The Honeymooners, The Robber Bridegroom (Lucille Lortel Award), Gigantic Gigantic (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Rooms: A Rock Romance (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination) and The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Drama Desk Award nomination). Leslie received a TimeOutNY Award for her solo show Leslie Kritzer Is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches. Television: “Difficult People,” “Kevin Can Wait,” “Younger,” “VINYL,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Instagram/Twitter @lesliekritzer