Zachary James

Most recently, Zachary played Claude Frollo in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Prince Edward Theatre, London) and Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar alongside Cynthia Erivo & Adam Lambert (Hollywood Bowl). 

Zachary orignated the 2024 West End role of Hades in Hadestown. He is also on the new cast recording of the show. 

Zachary is a stage and screen actor, recording artist and international opera singer from Spring Hill, Florida. He is a 2022 Grammy Award Winner and was honored as the Vocalist of the Decade and Performer of the Decade by BroadwayWorld, Breakout Artist of the Year by Verismo Magazine, Most Innovative Artist by Classical Post and top 30 most influential LGBTQ+ artists by OperaWire. 

He played Thomas Hassinger in the original cast of the Tony Award winning production of South Pacific at Lincoln Center and created the role of Lurch in the Broadway musical of The Addams Family. His TV debut was opposite Tina Fey and Steve Martin as Carl, a Federal Agent, on 30 Rock. His professional operatic debut came in 2013 when Philip Glass wrote the role of Abraham Lincoln for him in the world premiere of The Perfect American at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a role he revived on the West End for English National Opera and in Brisbane for Opera Queensland. He created the role of Amenhotep in the Olivier Award winning production of Akhnaten on the West End for English National Opera, a role he revived for The Metropolitan Opera and Los Angeles Opera and was broadcast to movie theatre worldwide live from The Metropolitan Opera in 2019.