Nathan Levy: Leading with the Best of Himself

STOPTIME: Live in the Moment. · Sep 17, 2026 · 1h 2m · transcript

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Broadway can look like a straight line from the outside, but Nathan Levy’s path is anything but. When we first spoke, he was a teenager hired as an understudy for Dear Evan Hansen and literally waiting to go on when the world shut down. Six years later, he’s back with a stacked resume, a clearer sense of self, and a new headline: stepping into a lead role in the first-ever Broadway production of The Fantasticks.

We talk honestly about the stuff performers rarely say out loud: the fear of burning bridges, the constant temptation to look side to side…