Geno Segers, former star of the Broadway show “Hadestown,” has exited the production following a controversy surrounding his previous transphobic comments.
In an announcement to Page Six, the show’s producers confirmed, “Hadestown and Geno Segers have come to a mutual agreement that Mr. Segers will not be joining the Broadway production.”
They assured fans that plans for replacement casting are underway and updates will be shared soon.
Page Six has contacted Segers’ representative for additional comments on the matter.
Initially, the 49-year-old actor was slated to portray Hades in the theater’s upcoming season, set to debut at the Walter Kerr Theatre on September 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.”