{"id":593796,"date":"2026-05-20T05:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593796\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T05:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:22:25","slug":"broadway-star-jessica-vosk-appeals-for-privacy-after-super-fan-sneaks-into-dressing-room-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593796\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway star Jessica Vosk appeals for privacy after \u2018super-fan\u2019 sneaks into dressing room | Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Broadway<\/a> star Jessica Vosk has appealed for backstage privacy to be respected after describing how a \u201csuper-fan\u201d gained access to her dressing room.<\/p>\n

Vosk, who is starring in the musical Beaches<\/a> at the Majestic theatre in New York, posted a video about the incident on Instagram<\/a>. She said that someone had entered her dressing room following a group of people that Vosk knew. \u201cI don\u2019t know how that happened \u2013 I will figure that out,\u201d she said. It was only after several minutes that Vosk realised the stranger was not known to the group she had welcomed. \u201cIt\u2019s really scary when this stuff happens,\u201d she said, \u201cbecause then it makes the actor feel put in a really crappy-ass position.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is a tradition for fans to wait for the chance to meet actors at the stage door after a show, although this is by no means guaranteed or to be expected as part of an actor\u2019s job. Vosk said that she had not appeared at the stage door during Beaches because of the musical\u2019s considerable demands. \u201cThis show is a huge lift for me and I have not had a day off and I have been going, going, going as much as I can.\u201d Her priority, she said, was to keep healthy and that after the curtain comes down she wants to \u201cgo home and go to bed\u201d. She ended her video with an appeal: \u201cPlease do not try and somehow sneak backstage to someone\u2019s dressing room at a show. It\u2019s really scary for us. It might not feel scary to you, but it is for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow actors expressed support for Vosk on social media and shared their own experiences of similar situations. Kristin Chenoweth commented: \u201cIt\u2019s happened to me. Kinda scary.\u201d Kay-Megan Washington said that such scenarios had \u201cbeen happening too often\u201d and called for greater security. Lea Salonga commented: \u201cThis makes me so angry! I\u2019m so sorry it happened to you.\u201d After encountering two theatregoers in her dressing room in 2023, Salonga decried an \u201cattitude of entitlement\u201d from some and said that buying a ticket for a show \u201cdoes not mean all-access\u201d.<\/p>\n

The problem goes beyond Broadway. In 2023, the American actor Sophia Bush said that on the afternoon of her first performance in 2:22: A Ghost Story in London, \u201ca man stuck a camera in the window of our ladies\u2019 dressing room<\/a>\u201d. Later, the same individual \u201cshoved his camera through our curtains\u201d before a member of the production intervened and the intruder fled.<\/p>\n

Beaches, based on the novel that was turned into a film, stars Vosk and Kelli Barrett as lifelong friends.<\/p>\n