Jeremiah Kissel is thrilled to be celebrating Christmas at Groton Hill, under the baton of Maestro Hangen, following previous holiday performances together at The Boston Pops, (“Grinch”), as well as at Indian Hill, (“Kennedy Portrait”, “Ellis Island: The Dream of America”). With other orchestras he has narrated “A Christmas Carol”, “The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers”, “Casey at the Bat”, “The Composer is Dead”, “Here Comes a Bold Umbrellaphant”, “From the Earth to the Moon and Beyond”, “The Carnival of the Animals”, “Peter and the Wolf, The Wizard of Menlo Park”, “L’Histoire du Soldat”, The Concert tour of “Porgy and Bess”, and “The Defiant Requiem”, (BSO). A forty-year veteran of Boston’s professional stages, Mr. Kissel has played leading roles for the Huntington, A.R.T., New Repertory, and Merrimack Repertory theaters, as well as the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, the Lyric Stage, Shear Madness, and various out-of-town companies passing through Boston. Recent roles include Bernie Madoff at Theater Row in NYC, Cyrano (earning a 2019 Norton Award nomination) at Gloucester Stage, and Richard Nixon at the New Rep. Screen credits include The Town, The Fighter, Joy, Stronger, Castle Rock, Body of Proof, Julia for HBO, and The Wrong Car. Mr. Kissel is the winner of several Norton Awards, several IRNE’s, an Arts Impulse, and a Helen Hayes Award. In 2003 he received Boston’s highest onstage recognition, the Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence.