Olympic Gold Medal Winner Laurie Hernandez Makes Broadway Debut in & Juliet Starting March 17

The two-time medal-winning Olympic gymnast joins the cast of the hit jukebox musical at the Sondheim.

March 17, 2026 By Andrew Gans

Laurie Hernandez, the two-time medal-winning Olympic gymnast, joins the company of the hit Broadway musical & Juliet March 17 at the Sondheim Theatre.

Hernandez—part of the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team dubbed the “Final Five” at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal with the team and a silver medal on the balance beam—is making her Broadway debut for a limited engagement through June 14. The Dancing With the Stars winner is joining the musical's ensemble in the featured dance role of Charmion.

“I’ve always been such a Broadway fan, so to make my Broadway debut in & Juliet is a dream come true,” Hernandez said in an earlier statement. “The show is so much fun to watch as an audience member, and I can’t wait to join this incredible cast and actually perform in the show each night.”

The current Broadway company of & Juliet is led by Gianna Harris as Juliet, James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin) as Lance, Alison Luff (Waitress) as Anne, Drew Gehling (Waitress) as Shakespeare, Michael Iván Carrier as May, Jeannette Bayardelle (Girl From the North Country) as Angélique, Liam Pearce (How to Dance in Ohio) as Romeo, and Nathan Levy (Dear Evan Hansen) as François.

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Nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, & Juliet flips the script on the William Shakespeare classic, imagining what would happen next if Juliet hadn’t ended it all over Romeo. Featuring a book by David West Read, the score includes famous pop songs written by Max Martin, including “Since U Been Gone,” “Roar,” “I Want It That Way,” and “Confident.”

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The production also has direction by Luke Sheppard, choreography by Jennifer Weber, musical supervision, orchestrations, and arrangements by Bill Sherman, scenic design by Soutra Gilmour, costume design by Paloma Young, lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Gareth Owen, video projection design by Andrzej Goulding, hair, wig, and makeup design by J. Jared Janas, and musical direction and additional orchestrations by Dominic Fallacaro.

U.S. casting is by Stephen Kopel and Carrie Gardner.

The international hit, which opened at the Sondheim November 17, 2022 following a run in the West End, was the first new musical of the 2022–2023 Broadway season to announce its recoupment.