Jefferson Mays is a Tony Award-winning actor whose remarkable versatility has made him one of the American theatre's most celebrated performers. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for I Am My Own Wife, in which he portrayed more than 40 characters, and received additional Tony nominations for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and Oslo. His Broadway credits also include The Music Man, The Front Page, and The Best Man. Mays previously inhabited the world of Charles Dickens in a solo adaptation of A Christmas Carol, portraying more than 50 characters. A Tale of Two Cities marks an imagined return to Dickens's universe, exploring the transformative possibilities of a single performer bringing an entire world to life.