Question: Alejandro "Alec" Mapa, is an American actor, comedian and writer, and got his first professional break when he was cast to replace B.D. Wong for the role of who in the Broadway production of "M. Butterfly"?

Context articles: Nick Cordero
B. D. Wong
Transamerican Love Story
The Medium
All-American Girl (1994 TV series)
Habeas Corpus (play)
Alec Mapa
Robert Gossett
Chip Zien
Michael Granger (actor)

Nick Cordero is a Canadian actor.
 He appeared on Broadway in 2014 in the musical "Bullets Over Broadway" in the role of Cheech, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical.
 He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical and a Theater World Award for the role.
 He originated the title role in the Off-Broadway production of "The Toxic Avenger".
 He also played the role of Dennis in "Rock of Ages" on Broadway in 2012 and on tour.
 In March 2016, he joined the Broadway production of "Waitress", playing the role of Earl.
 He left "Waitress" to join the Broadway premier of the musical "A Bronx Tale", as "Sonny" at the Longacre Theatre starting on November 3, 2016.
Bradley Darryl "BD" Wong (born October 24, 1960) is an American actor.
 Wong won a Tony Award for his performance as Song Liling in "M. Butterfly", becoming the only actor in Broadway history to receive the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World Award for the same role.
 He has since gained more notability for playing the roles on "", Father Ray Mukada on "Oz", Dr. John Lee on "Awake", Dr. Henry Wu in the first "Jurassic Park" film as well as the fourth entry, "Jurassic World", and Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme in the film "Seven Years in Tibet".
 As of August 13, 2017, Wong is the host of the new HLN medical documentary series "Something's Killing Me With BD Wong".
Transamerican Love Story is an American reality dating show in which suitors woo transgender woman Calpernia Addams.
 Addams chooses a suitor by process of elimination.
 When the show first aired, viewers could vote their preferences online, but it was Addams who chose whom to eliminate.
 Calpernia is accompanied by her friend Andrea James; each episode is hosted by comedian Alec Mapa.
The Medium is a short (one-hour-long) two-act dramatic opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti.
 Commissioned by Columbia University, its first performance was there on 8 May 1946.
 The opera's first professional production was presented on a double bill with Menotti's "The Telephone" at the Heckscher Theater, New York City, February 18–20, 1947 by the Ballet Society.
 The Broadway production took place on May 1, 1947, at the Ethel Barrymore Theater with the same cast.
All-American Girl is a 1994 American sitcom featuring Margaret Cho as the rebellious teenage daughter of a traditional Korean-American family.
 The main cast that plays the part of Cho's family includes Jodi Long, Clyde Kusatsu, B.D. Wong, J.B. Quon, and Amy Hill.
Habeas Corpus is a stage comedy in two acts by the English author Alan Bennett.
 It was first performed at the Lyric Theatre in London on 10 May 1973, with Alec Guinness in the central role.
 It ran, with cast changes, until 10 August 1974.
 The Broadway production that followed was less successful, running for less than three months.
 The play has been revived several times since then, in London and elsewhere.
Alejandro "Alec" Mapa ( ; born July 10, 1965) is an American actor, comedian and writer.
 He got his first professional break when he was cast to replace B.D. Wong for the role of Song Liling in the Broadway production of "M. Butterfly".
 He later gained recognition for roles such as Adam Benet on "Half & Half", Suzuki St. Pierre on "Ugly Betty" and Vern on "Desperate Housewives".
 Mapa recurred as Renzo on "Switched at Birth".
Robert Gossett (born March 3, 1954) is an American television, theater, and film actor.
 Gossett landed his first professional job after he graduated from high school in a production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
 He went on to act in the Broadway production of Lloyd Richard's "Fences", Hal Scott's "A Raisin in the Sun" and Donald McKayle's "The Last Minstrel Show".
 He also performed in the Negro Ensemble Company's productions of "Manhattan Made Me", "Sons & Fathers of Sons", "A Soldier's Play" and "Colored People's Time".
 Robert also has extensive television experience with guest starring roles on "Crossing Jordan", "NYPD Blue", and "Black Angel".
 In film, Gossett has acted in the Jeff Bridges/Tim Robbins film "Arlington Road" and the Sandra Bullock movie "The Net".
Jerome Herbert "Chip" Zien (born March 20, 1947) is an American actor.
 He is best known for playing the lead role of the Baker in the original Broadway production of "Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim.
 He has appeared in all of the "Marvin Stories" musicals by William Finn: "In Trousers", "March of the Falsettos", "Falsettoland" and "Falsettos".
 He played the role of Thénardier in the Broadway production of "Les Misérables" and Mark Rothenberg in the film "United 93".
 He is also known for providing the voice of Howard in the film "Howard the Duck".
Michael Granger (May 14, 1923 - October 22, 1981) Born Milton Grossman in Kansas City, MO, Granger was an American actor.
 He is known for appearing in "The Big Heat" and in B movies such as "Creature With The Atom Brain", as well as on TV shows including "Rawhide", "Kojak" and "The Untouchables".
 He created the role of Lazar Wolf, the butcher, in the original Broadway production of "Fiddler on the Roof" in 1964, and can be heard on the original cast album singing "L'Chaim" with Zero Mostel.
 He appeared in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center with Liv Ullman in 1975, and was again on Broadway in 1980 in Tennessee Williams's "Clothes for a Summer Hotel."
 Known for his resonant bass speaking voice, in the final years of Granger's life, he became a sought after voice over actor.
 He died October 22, 1981 in New York, NY of heart failure.