Giselle Gutierrez: If You Knew My Story at 54 Below

Born in Plant City, FL, Giselle Gutierrez could not be more excited to make her Solo Debut at 54 Below. She has been singing and annoying her parents and sister since she could speak. Her love for music only grew when she received her first guitar at 8 years old. Determined to learn, she taught herself from YouTube videos. She took every opportunity she could to sing and perform - from talent shows to open mic nights at her local coffee shop called Krazy Kup. There, she would perform covers and eventually, her own original songs. The owner saw something in her and allowed her to start playing there when she was just 12 years old. That's where she truly found her love for performing. She started theatre relatively “late” in her career, beginning in her senior year of high school. The first musical she ever did was Bright Star, as Alice Murphy, a role that completely changed her life and made her realize she wanted pursue musical theatre as a career. She then auditioned for every theatre school she could, getting rejected from all of them. Discouraged, she decided to go to the University of Central Florida as a Theatre Studies BA major. There, she got into the fall musical, "Working", as a part of the ensemble and understudied the lead. It was during her understudy rehearsals that she was noticed by the director, who offered her a position in the BFA MT class of 2026. In the spring, her high school theatre teacher spontaneously sent her a screen shot from the Telsey office instagram about a virtual open call they were holding for the role of Lydia in the First Broadway National Tour of Mrs. Doubtfire the Musical. She decided to submit, this being her first professional audition ever. Two weeks later she received an email stating she had a callback in New York in 3 days. She scrambled to get a plane ticket and made it to New York. She did her final callback and 2 weeks later received the call that changed her life. The next year and a half would consist of touring with the National Tour of Mrs. Doubtfire, traveling to 42 different cities performing the show 427 times. Giselle can now be found in New York City singing at 54 Below, The Green Room 42 and other cabaret venues. None of this would be possible without the support of her family and friends who have believed in her from the beginning. Huge shout out to Spencer Sher for pushing her to make this dream become a reality!

Standby Veronica Sawyer/Heather Chandler in Heathers at New World Stages. New York Theatre: The Joe Iconis Christmas Extravaganza (13th and 14th annual). Readings/New Works: Grow, These These Girls Have Demons. Regional Theatre: Legally Blonde (Theatre Aspen).

Kendall Becerra is a proud San Diego native and recent BFA Musical Theater graduate from Marymount Manhattan College. She was honored to receive the Jimmy Award for Best Actress in 2022. Recent credits include Alice Murphy in Bright Star (MMC), Polexia (U/S Penny Lane) in Almost Famous (A.C.T. of CT), Gymslip in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (The Old Globe Theater). TV credits include: FBI Most Wanted (Co-star). Giselle, my ride or die, my roommate, my sister. I can’t imagine NYC without you and thank God everyday for putting you in my life. I am so incredibly proud of you. With all my love … Instragram: Kendall.becerra

Broadway: Leopoldstadt (Young Leo). Off-Broadway: House of McQueen (Young Lee) First National Tour: Mrs. Doubtfire (Christopher). Regional: The Sound of Music (Kurt), Paper Mill Playhouse; A Walk on the Moon (Danny), George Street Playhouse. Film/TV: “Sesame Street,” The Harbinger. VO: “CoComelon” (JJ). Endless thanks to Bercy Talent, Zuri Agency, my extraordinary and dedicated coaches and mentors, and to the friends and family whose love makes these dreams possible.

Tatianna Córdoba is a Bay Area native and proud Latina/Filipina who received a BFA in Musical Theater from Boston Conservatory. She made her Broadway debut last spring as Ana in Real Women Have Curves and has since been seen in IN THE HEIGHTS (directed by Karen Olivo) and Picnic At Hanging Rock Off-Broadway. 

Currently, Isabella is making her off-Broadway debut as Veronica in Heathers. Last year, she made her Broadway debut as Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice after touring with the company for a year and a half. She also starred in the new Canadian musical Life After as Alice Carter, earning a Dora Mavor Moore nomination for her performance.

Jonathan Hoover is best known for his viral Patti LuPone alter ego @inappropriatepatti, an impression that started as a party trick and quickly led him to the most legendary cabaret stages in New York City. It inspired Ryan Murphy to write him into American Horror Story: NYC performing alongside the real life Patti LuPone. ​ In addition to his impressions, Jonathan is an accomplished stage actor. Starting as Michael Darling when he was 8 years old, for the past three decades his passion has lead him to national and international tours, Off-Broadway, regional theatres, and more workshops than he can count. Some career highlights include Daniel/Mrs. Doubtfire on the 1st National tour of Mrs Doubtfire the Musical, the international tour of A Chorus Line, Adriana in the gender-bent Off-Broadway revival of Boys from Syracuse, the title roles in Bat Boy and Joseph…, Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, Anthony in Sweeney Todd, Henrik in A Little Night Music, Brad Majors in Rocky Horror Show, and many more. He wrote and performed his first solo cabaret Second-Rate Somebody to sold out houses at 54 Below and the Art House in Provincetown. He has also appeared in star-studded concerts on the stages of Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Birdland, Joe’s Pub, Greenroom 42 and the Laurie Beechman. He also is a proud graduate of PCPA (the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts).

Joseph Morell is a Miami Native, NYC based actor, who received his BFA in Musical Theater from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music. He was most recently seen as Henry in Next to Normal, with Zoetic Stage at the Arsht Center. He is so excited to be back at 54 below! Instagram: @josephmorell_

Spencer Sher is a Theatrical Producer and Arts Administrator. He made his 54 Below producing debut in July 2024 with 54 Sings Vulfpeck and his Green Room 42 producing debut in January 2025 with Fake Bands/Real Songs. He is the Creator and Producer of the podcast, “And the EGOT Goes To…”, of which he hosts the Tony Awards episodes and the Co-Host and Broadway Reviewer for the international Musical Theatre podcast, “Thrash n’ Treasure”. Keep an eye out this year for his new concert series, “In Their Own Words” which uses interviews given by composers throughout their careers to add context to their library of work, premiering on October 4 with The Songs of Jason Robert Brown. Tickets are available at tinyurl.com/itowjrb

Aidan S. Wells is a New York-based music director and conductor. Beyond an expansive history as a pianist on and off-Broadway, Aidan served as Associate Conductor for the South Kansas Symphony until 2020, and has conducted productions ranging from Queen’s We Will Rock You to Gershwin’s Crazy For You. As a pianist, he specializes in original and devised contemporary works, such as stage adaptations of Over The Garden Wall and, recently, Fantom.
Aidan has held instructor positions at Southwestern College and New York University, and is a fixture in the NYC cabaret scene, having music directed dozens of performances already in 2026 alone. Additionally, Aidan is the Founder and Artistic Director of AfterThought Production, a media and performing arts company in NYC.

Ronan McKinnon is a versatile and vibrant freelance bass player in the NYC area. He is known for appearing anywhere where great music is being played regardless of the style or genre and has been seen playing both electric and upright bass in many esteemed venues such as The Town Hall, The Rose Theater, Times Square, New York City Center, and Alice Tully Hall. Ronan McKinnon has made music alongside a number of musical giants such as Bill Frisell, The Clark Sisters, Salieu Suso, Sandbox Percussion, Bobby Sanabria, George Lewis, Doyeon Kim, Wyclef Jean and Jason Mraz. Additionally Ronan McKinnon frequently engages in multidisciplinary art, in 2023 he was the principal bass of the Mannes Opera’s production of The Magic Flute and in 2024 he was in the orchestra for The Martha Graham Dance Company’s production of Rite of Spring as well as numerous off broadway productions and occasional collaborations with the NYC civil rights focused orchestra, Protestra.

Noah Turner is a New York-based pianist, conductor, music director, and arranger. Recently he has worked as Music Director for Blue Hill Troupe's She Loves Me (2025) and Cinderella (2024), Associate Music Director on the International Tour of The Sound of Music in Manila, the Music Assistant on Joy the Musical (with Music Supervisor Andy Einhorn), and Music Director/Conductor of the Jersey Boys 2nd National Tour. He actively works as a music director at cabaret venues throughout the city such as 54 Below and Green Room 42. He has previously worked with Spencer Sher on 54 Sings Vulfpeck, Gimme Gimme: The Songs of Jeanine Tesori, Great Big Stuff: A Tribute to David Yazbek, and the upcoming series “In Their Own Words”. Noah received his Master’s degree in Collaborative Piano from NYU Steinhardt, and has a Bachelor’s degree in Composition from SUNY Fredonia.