Jasmine Amy Rogers (born March 9, 1999)Rogers, Amy Jasmine. "Betty's Big Adventure: Backstage at Boop! the Musical with Jasmine Amy Rogers, Episode 1, Broadwaycom, March 21, 2025 @0:29: "Today is Tuesday, March 10, and my birthday was yesterday, so I just turned 26" is an American actress and singer. She began her professional career in 2019 in musical theatre roles and first worked with director Jerry Mitchell when she created the dual role of Frances Bassey and Gloria Gaynor in the premiere of Becoming Nancy at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. She toured the US for a year from 2022 to 2023 as Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls. After this, Rogers created the title role in Boop! The Musical in Chicago in 2023. She then played Anita in Jelly's Last Jam at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2024.
Rogers made her Broadway debut starring in Boop! in 2025. For her performance in the show, she won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical,"2025 Drama Desk Award Winners", Drama Desk Awards. Retrieved June 1, 2025 an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a musical and a Theatre World Award, and she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, among other accolades. Beginning later that year, she played Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee off-Broadway, and in 2026 she is back on Broadway as Ericka in School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play.
Early life and education Rogers was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother, Jacquelyn, is a pharmacist."Inspiration Stage's Jasmine Rogers wins the TUTS Tommy Tune Award for best actress", Sugar Land Sun, May 23, 2017 Her family moved to Richmond, Texas, in 2010. At age 7, her first role was as a member of Tiger Lily's tribe in Milford Performing Arts Center's production of Peter Pan.Tran, Diep. "Jasmine Amy Rogers Blew Her 1st Boop! Audition. Here's How She Redeemed Herself", Playbill, April 9, 2025"Inspiration Stage’s Jasmine Rogers wins Tommy Tune Award for Best Actress", Fort Bend Independent, 2017 She graduated from Austin High School near Houston, Texas, in 2017, where she won a Theatre Under the Stars Tommy Tune Award for best actress as the Witch in Into the Woods.Brunner, Jeryl. "Meet Broadway’s Betty Boop, Jasmine Amy Rogers", Forbes, April 24, 2025, Soon afterwards, she was a 2017 Jimmy Awards finalist.Gershonowitz, Heather and Diep Tran. "15 Jimmy Award Alums Who Are Now Theatre Favorites", Playbill, June 21, 2024
Career
Rogers studied musical theatre at Manhattan School of Music for two years from 2017 to 2019, leaving when she began to book professional acting work, including creating the dual role of Frances Bassey and Donna Summer in the 2019 premiere of Becoming Nancy, directed by Jerry Mitchell at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.Gans, Andrew. "Jasmine Amy Rogers Lands Title Role in World Premiere of Boop! The Betty Boop Musical, Playbill, September 27, 2023 After this, she played Melody Green in Paper Mill Playhouse's 2022 production of the Dion DiMucci bio-musical The Wanderer."Works & Process Announces Boop! The Musical with Jerry Mitchell", ILoveNY, February 4, 2025 Between shows, she worked as a babysitter and restaurant hostess.Ryan, Patrick. "A Betty Boop musical shouldn't work. But with Jasmine Amy Rogers, it's 'phenomenal'.", USA Today, May 22, 2025 She next played Gretchen Wieners, from May 2022 to May 2023, in the US national tour of Mean Girls."Jasmine Amy Rogers: Touring", IBDb. Retrieved April 25, 2025
After additional tap dance classes,Lunden, Jeff. "This Betty Boop is Broadway's newest star", NPR, March 16, 2025Quinn, Dave. "Jasmine Amy Rogers Blew Her Audition for Boop! The Musical. Now, She's Tony-Nominated for the Role", People, May 16, 2025 Rogers created the role of Betty Boop in Boop! The Musical, directed by Mitchell, in Chicago in 2023.Nahoom, Belle. "In Boop! The Musical, a Nostalgic Story Leaps to the Stage", The Chicago Maroon, February 8, 2024 As Anita in Jelly's Last Jam at the Pasadena Playhouse in May and June 2024, she was "a sultry siren ... singing with the buttery vocals of a jazz chanteuse."Hayashida, Alisa. "Jelly's Last Jam Electrifies the Pasadena Playhouse", The South Pasadenan, June 4, 2024 A May 2025 feature on Rogers in The New York Times concludes that playing Anita was a learning experience that "likely helped strengthen Rogers's performance of Betty [Boop], making it simultaneously more personal and more universal."Vincentelli, Elisabeth and Diana Golan. "To Play Betty Boop, Jasmine Amy Rogers Had to Transform", The New York Times, May 12, 2025. Rogers made her Broadway debut starring in Boop! in March 2025, and she appears on the cast album, which was released in June 2025."David Foster, Jasmine Amy Rogers & Original Broadway Cast of Boop! The Musical, itunescharts. Retrieved June 8, 2025Culwell-Block, Logan. "Broadway's Boop! Will Release a Cast Album", Playbill, April 24, 2025 Boop! closed on July 13, 2025. She was widely praised for her charismatic and vocally strong performance.Cristi, A. A. "Review Roundup: Boop! The Musical Opens on Broadway", BroadwayWorld, April 7, 2025 Frank Rizzo, in his Variety review, wrote: "Rogers is a delightful embodiment of Betty, a cartoon that she makes just human enough with warmth, vulnerability and pluck." For her performance in the role, Rogers won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Leading Actress, was honored with a Theatre World Award,Gans, Andrew. "Kit Connor, Paul Mescal, Jasmine Amy Rogers, Helen J Shen, More Are 2025 Theatre World Award Winners", Playbill, May 5, 2025 and was nominated for a Tony Award,Culwell-Block, Logan, and Andrew Gans. "Tony Awards 2025: The Full List of Winners", Playbill, June 8, 2025 and a Drama League Award.
In July 2025, she gave a solo concert as part of the Broadway by the Boardwalk series at Hudson River Park.Rosky, Nicole. "Watch Highlights from Jasmine Amy Rogers' Solo Concert Debut", BroadwayWorld, August 1, 2025 Beginning in November, she appeared as Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee off-Broadway at New World Stages.Culwell-Block, Logan. "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Returns Off-Broadway November 7", Playbill, November 7, 2025 Matt Windman wrote in AMNY that Rogers gives "a performance so vulnerable it nearly re-centers the musical around her".Stewart, Zachary. She appeared as Queenie in the Encores! production of The Wild Party at New York City Center in March 2026.Culwell-Block, Logan. "Jasmine Amy Rogers, Adrienne Warren, Andrea Martin, More Join Encores! Season", Playbill, October 16, 2025 Critic Thom Geier wrote, "She can be raw and crass one moment, a sharp-elbowed player ... and then reveal genuine vulnerability in quieter moments. ... She also, of course, sings like a dream"."The Wild Party cements Jasmine Amy Rogers' star status", Culture Sauce, March 19, 2026 Rogers has starred as Ericka in the Broadway debut of School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play since September 2026.Culwell-Block, Logan. "Reviews Are Out for School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play on Broadway", Playbill, September 28, 2026 In The New York Times, Helen Shaw singled her out as "an incredible Ericka here, anxious and pugnacious by turns."Shaw, Helen. "School Girls Review: A Broadway Glow-Up for a 'Mean Girls' Comedy", The New York Times, September 28, 2026 She is set to follow this as Maria in a Broadway revival of The Sound of Music from March 2027.
Her TV credits include Charlotte in Evil on Paramount+ (2019).
Theatre Broadway YearsTitleRoleLocationNotes2025BOOP! The MusicalBetty Boop Broadhurst TheatreDirected by Jerry Mitchell(upcoming)School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls PlayEricka BoafoSamuel J. Friedman TheatreDirected by Whitney White(upcoming) The Sound of MusicMaria Rainer Vivian Beaumont Theatre Directed by Lear deBessonet
Other productions TitleYearsRoleLocationNotesBecoming Nancy2019Frances Bassey / Donna Summer Alliance Theatre (Atlanta, Georgia)Director: Jerry Mitchell The Wanderer2022Melody GreenPaper Mill Playhouse (Millburn, New Jersey) Mean Girls2022–2023Gretchen WienersU.S. National TourReplacementBOOP! The Musical2023Betty BoopCIBC Theatre (Chicago, Illinois)Director: Jerry MitchellJelly's Last Jam2024AnitaPasadena Playhouse (Pasadena, California)The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee2025–2026OliveNew World Stages (off-Broadway)Oklahoma!2026Ado Annie CarnesCarnegie HallThe Wild Party2026QueenieNew York City Center
Awards and nominations YearAwardCategoryWorkResult2025Tony AwardsBest Actress in a MusicalBoop! The MusicalDrama Desk AwardsOutstanding Lead Performance in a MusicalDrama League AwardsDistinguished PerformanceOuter Critics Circle AwardsOutstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway MusicalChita Rivera Awards for Dance and ChoreographyWild, Stephi. "2025 Chita Rivera Awards Nominations – The Full List", BroadwayWorld, April 29, 2025Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway ShowTheatre World Award Outstanding Debut Performance 2026 Lucille Lortel Awards Outstanding EnsembleThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Outer Critics Circle AwardsOutstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway MusicalDrama Desk AwardOutstanding Featured Performance in a MusicalDorian AwardOutstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production Drama League Awards Distinguished Performance The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and The Wild Party
References
External links
PBS feature "Stagebound" on Rogers Rogers singing "Something to Shout About" from Boop! The Musical