Niederauer starred on
Broadway in
School of Rock the Musical. Before he was 15 years old he had played guitar with
Gregg Allman,
Derek Trucks,
Warren Haynes,
Stevie Nicks,
Lady Gaga and
Buddy Guy. He played with the German rock band
Scorpions. During a 2017 birthday celebration for musician
Col. Bruce Hampton, Niederauer was playing a guitar solo on stage when Hampton suddenly collapsed and died. Nobody knew the quirky Hampton had actually died, and so the show continued for several minutes: Hampton was eventually taken backstage and then taken away by ambulance and pronounced dead. In 2018, he garnered widespread attention over a
tweet of himself playing the
National Anthem on guitar. He also performed guitar in the orchestra in
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. He has since performed the National Anthem on guitar at
Wrigley Field before a
Chicago Cubs baseball game in 2019, as well as during the opening ceremonies of the 2020
AFC Championship Game at
Arrowhead Stadium on January 24, 2021. In 2021, he enrolled as an undergraduate at
Yale University, where he is an economics major.
Acting • In 2015, he played the role of Zack in
School of Rock the Musical on Broadway. • In 2016, he played the role of Bartholomew in the movie,
Here Comes Rusty. • In 2019 he played the role of Virgil in
Spike Lee’s
Netflix series,
She’s Gotta Have It. ==References==