Broadway’s ‘Hadestown’ drops Geno Segers after transgender comments resurface
Actor Geno Segers has been dropped from Broadway’s “Hadestown” over his past transphobic remarks.
“The producers of ‘Hadestown’ and Geno Segers have mutually agreed that Mr. Segers will no longer join the Broadway production,” producers said in a statement to Page Six.
They also promised that “additional casting will be announced shortly.”
Page Six has reached out to Segers’ rep for comment.
Segers, 49, was set to play Hades as part of the Broadway production’s new cast taking the stage at Walter Kerr Theatre on Sept. 1.
However, last week, several of his videos and posts about the transgender community resurfaced on the internet, in which he voiced his opposition to trans women participating in women’s sports and mocked pronoun usage, per the theater site OnStageBlog.
Following the backlash, he made his Instagram account private and took down several videos from his YouTube channel.
Amber Iman, who was cast as Segers’ onstage wife, Persephone, celebrated the production decision with a post on her Instagram Stories Sunday.
“I wasn’t posting, But I was not quiet,” Iman wrote alongside an article about Segers’ exit from the Tony-winning show.
“Sometimes you gotta get off social media and demand answers. Cuz I’ll be damned if my ‘husband’ is a clown and we’re not at the circus. ONWARD,” she added.
The new cast of “Hadestown” — which includes Iman as Persephone, Kayko as Orpheus, Jasmin Savoy Brown as Eurydice and Norbert Leo Butz as Hermes — is set to remain the same.
The show has been on Broadway since 2019 and opened on London’s West End in 2024.
Although “Hadestown” would have been Segers’s Broadway debut, he famously played Mufasa in Disney’s Australian production of “The Lion King” in 2006.
He’s better known for his television career, having appeared in episodes of “White Collar,” “Teen Wolf,” “Castle,” Banshee,” “Elementary” and “Yellowstone.”
