Our Team
Heidi Blickenstaff
Heidi has long been interested in giving back. From participating in Bike MS to supporting various initiatives with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, Heidi’s passion has been to make a difference. During the COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home order, with Broadway shut down and time on their hands, Heidi and her husband, entertainment attorney Nicholas Rohlfing founded Broadway Because, their non-profit organization that utilizes the incredible outreach and talents of the Broadway community to address a variety of social issues and charitable causes.
Heidi, a Broadway and television actress and teacher based in New York City, is perhaps best known for playing a version of herself in the original Broadway and off-Broadway musical [title of show], that she co-conceived with her best friends and collaborators. Most recently, Heidi starred in Disney’s Freaky Friday, originating the role of Katherine in both the theatrical world premiere and Disney Channel’s Original Movie. She was last seen on Broadway playing Bea in the original Broadway cast of Something Rotten! Heidi travels all over the country and the world doing concerts and master classes and can be heard on many cast albums, but her first love is Broadway and making new things. She’s the the proud step-mom of teenage stepsons Jonah and Malcom, and dog mamma to Eleanor.
Nicholas Rohlfing
Nicholas is the co-founder of Broadway Because and is a proud member of the New York Broadway community. He is the owner of Nicholas Rohlfing Law, a transactional entertainment law firm in New York City representing a variety of clients in the entertainment field. Over the years, Nicholas has participated in many charitable events and causes and with his wife, Broadway and television actress Heidi Blickenstaff, he realized that the greater Broadway community has a special ability to bring attention to, and generate financial support for, a wide variety of causes. Broadway Because’s first initiative and Nicholas and Heidi’s maiden voyage as producers, was the GenZStayHome PSA Project, and was a direct result of the incredible heart and ingenuity of the Broadway community and the nationwide, and worldwide, outreach that its members bring to the table.
Nicholas has been a practicing attorney for 13 years and has been in the entertainment business for more than three decades, starting his career as a young actor at sixteen. Nicholas graduated summa cum laude and with honors from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and received his J.D. in the music-rich town of Athens, Georgia, at the University of Georgia School of Law. Nicholas is the proud father of Jonah, 19 and Malcolm, 16.