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Ben Cook
Performing in his 6th Broadway show. Others include Ragtime, Billy in Billy Elliot, Tuck Everlasting, Mean Girls, and most recently Riff in Ivo van Hove’s West Side Story revival. National tours: Billy Elliot and Newsies. Film: Mouthpiece in Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-winning West Side Story, Beckett in Happiness for Beginners on Netflix, Aaron Fisher in HBO’s Paterno alongside Al Pacino, Race in Newsies: The Broadway Musical (Disney). TV: Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin and The Penguin (HBO Max), The First Lady (Showtime) Law & Order: SVU, FBI, Veep, and 30 Rock. Ben has been involved with Illinoise since the very beginning and is honored to bring it home to New York.
(Ben Cook, photo courtesy of Polk and Co.)
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