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Clays Roberts to Make U.S. Debut as Jack Kelly in Theatre by the Sea’s Newsies

As covered in Playbill.com today, Clay Roberts will make his U.S. debut as Jack Kelly in Theatre by the Sea’s Newsies opening later this month.

While Clay maybe New Zealand born, he has spent a great deal of his career in Australia. Originally a WAAPA graduate Clay has appeared in many Australian based productions including CATS, Matilda the Musical and the most recent Australian tour of Mamma Mia!

The production is currently in rehearsal in Rhode Island and AussieTheatre managed to have a quick chat, “We just finished blocking the show and this company and cast are insane, we are all very excited and are having a blast getting this amazing show up and running.” said Roberts.

Congrats Clay!

Matt Edwards

Matt is a past owner of AussieTheatre, working as digital director from 2011 to 2019. He is also a performer, most recently appeared in the Australian tour of Mamma Mia! and previously in the Australian/NZ tour of CATS and Enda Markey's acclaimed production of Blood Brothers. As well as performing Matt keeps himself busy in the digital side of the arts working with web design agency Emptyhead Digital