Geno Segers exits Broadway's 'Hadestown' after backlash over transgender comments

Geno Segers has departed the Broadway philharmonic “Hadestown” aft remarks helium made astir transgender radical resurfaced online.

Segers, who has acted successful “Yellowstone” and “Banshee,” was slated to articulation the Tony Award-winning accumulation connected Sept. 1 arsenic Hades, deity of the underworld, arsenic portion of a caller main formed that includes Jasmin Savoy Brown arsenic Eurydice, Norbert Leo Butz arsenic Hermes, Amber Iman arsenic Persephone, and Kayko arsenic Orpheus.

In a connection connected Sunday, per the New York Times, the amusement announced that “Hadestown” producers and the histrion had agreed to portion ways and that “additional casting” would beryllium announced.

The departure comes aft Segers’ since-deleted societal media posts, including videos helium uploaded to YouTube, resurfaced online and caused casting backlash that called for the histrion to beryllium pulled from the show. In clips featured connected OnStage Blog, the histrion says, “I’m not against anyone surviving retired their lives the mode they want, but I americium against their rights superseding the rights of different radical — that’s a small spot foul.”

In the clip, helium continued to accidental helium didn’t deliberation that transgender radical were oppressed and helium expressed an contented with identifying pronouns. OnStage Blog big Chris Peterson said that Segers had scrubbed his accounts for the astir portion but that the histrion was posting “anti-trans content” connected his X relationship and Instagram arsenic precocious arsenic October.

Iman, who volition play Hades’ wife, Persephone, successful the production, addressed the quality that Segers had been nixed successful a since-expired Instagram communicative connected Sunday.

“I wasn’t posting, But I was not quiet,” Iman wrote. “Sometimes you gotta get disconnected societal media and request answers. Cuz I’ll beryllium damned if my ‘husband’ is simply a clown and we’re not astatine the circus.”

On Monday, Segers issued an apology connected societal media. “I privation to widen my astir sincere apologies to everyone impacted by my words,” helium wrote. “While I ne'er intended to inflict harm, I admit that the interaction of my statements is what matters most.

“I americium afloat committed to listening, educating myself, and elevating my standards. I volition enactment tirelessly to gain the accidental to marque things right.”

The histrion past addressed his erstwhile castmates and the show’s producers, asking that they judge his apology for the accent his “actions person brought to this production.”

“I judge afloat work for my words and admit the necessity of contiguous accountability,” helium continued. “I widen my wholehearted enactment to the cast, crew, and my replacement. I privation you each tremendous occurrence during your run. I person implicit assurance that each of you volition beryllium phenomenal.”

The post-apocalyptic, jazzy New Orleans-style “Hadestown,” written by Anaïs Mitchell, is simply a mythical emotion communicative that follows young lovers Orpheus and Eurydice and the rulers of the underworld, Hades and Persephone.

Film professional Katie Walsh wrote of the 2026 filmed staging of the production: “There are moments erstwhile Mitchell’s songs consciousness eerily prescient: The show’s villain, Hades (Page), rules the underworld of Hadestown arsenic a fascistic industrialist; his Act I closing fig is titled ‘Why We Build the Wall.’ Factory workers sing backmost to him, ‘We physique the partition to support america free,’ a chorus that foretells the Trumpian rhetoric of 2016 and a reminder that these patterns of part and otherization are the eternal tools of the oppressor.”