Eric Kunze

Who is Eric Kunze?

Eric Kunze, born in 1971 in San Diego, California, is a Broadway actor and singer. He showed an early aptitude for singing and was involved in choir and theater at Rancho Buena Vista High School. He attended theater studies at University of California, Irvine. In his junior year, the students traveled to New York to expand their education through workshops. While there, Eric auditioned for and landed the role of Marius in Les Misérables at the age of 20. When not on the road, Kunze and his long-time friend Gina De Luca have a production company called Big City Broadway based in San Diego.

Kunze has had the pleasure of starring on Broadway in leading roles for the better part of his professional career. Performing in "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" at the Kennedy Center, Mr. Kunze starred as "The Man" in the national touring company of Whistle Down the Wind; later, he starred as the title character in the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar with veteran Carl Anderson after replacing Sebastian Bach.

He made his Broadway debut as Marius in Les Misérables and went on to star as Chris in Miss Saigon and then as Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees. Off-Broadway: Leopard's Leap, directed by Michael Rupert. International Tours: The Fantasticks, Pirates of Penzance, and the Mikado. He received rave reviews for the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Other Regional: Evita, West Side Story, Into the Woods, the title role in Pippin, South Pacific and the title role in The Who's Tommy in Los Angeles.