Jasmine Amy Rogers Leads With Vulnerability in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
"We were all children once," says Jasmine Amy Rogers, who plays the sensitive and preternaturally talented preteen Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. "It's a huge part of our lives." Spelling Bee, now playing off-Broadway at New World Stages, takes pains to theatricalize the charged period before adolescence, a quality that imbues the show with humor and heart. "Danny Mefford, our directo…