Following his run in the High School Musical movie, actor Lucas Grabeel made a splash on the big screen in Milk, the 2008 biopic about the slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk. Grabeel played a friend and supporter of Milk, photographer Danny Nicoletta. One of the most significant roles in his post-High School Musical career was that of Toby Kennish on the ABC Family drama Switched at Birth, which ran from 2011 to 2017.
Grabeel has also done extensive voice work on such projects as The Cleveland Show, Robot Chicken (voicing pop-star Justin Bieber), Phineas and Ferb, and DreamWorks Dragons. His most high-profile work has been on Family Guy, where he has had the recurring role of Chadley (and other characters) since 2010. In 2019 he played himself in a guest role on the Disney Plus' High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and popped up on a 2020 Disney Family Sing-Along special.
During a June 2020 interview with Variety, the High School Musical films' director, Kenny Ortega, revealed that Ryan Evans, Grabeel's character, came out post-high school. "We decided he's probably going to come out in college," Ortega said of Ryan. "It was less about coming out and just more about letting his true colors come forward." Keep reading to find out Grabeel's thoughts on if he would take on the role today.
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