Clayton Craddock hosts the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast and has held the drum chair in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar BoyzMemphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill and Ain’t Too Proud. He has been a sub drummer on Motown, The Color Purple, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Spongebob Squarepants-The Musical, Evita, Cats, Avenue Q, and The Big Apple Circus. The next project he’s working on is The Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical.

Clayton has performed on various TV shows, including Good Morning AmericaThe Colbert Report, The ViewThe Jimmy Fallon Show, The CBS Early Show, the Today Show, and the 2010 and 2019 TONY Awards at Radio City. He’s shared the stage with legends such as The Stylistics, Denise Williams, Chuck Berry, and Ben E. King and was in the Netflix DWYCK episode of Luke Cage with the Delfonics and the HBO version of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.

Clayton is a proud endorser of Ahead Drum Cases, Paiste CymbalsInnovative Percussion drumsticks, and Empire Ears.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clayton writes social commentary for his Substack publication Think Things Through and other publications, hosts the Think Things Through Podcast

Email: clayton@claytoncraddock.com