
The show premiered on Broadway in April 2018. Its pre-Broadway tryout began in October 2017 at the National Theatre, in Washington D.C. Ĭook joined the ensemble of the musical adaptation of the film Mean Girls. Previews began in March 2016, and the show closed the same May. In January 2016, after over 500 performances, Cook left that tour and joined the original Broadway cast of Tuck Everlasting. įrom the age of 16, he toured for a year and a half in the role of Race and occasionally performed the role of Crutchie as the understudy in the first national tour of Newsies the Musical. His final tour performance as "Billy" was in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 19, 2013. His next Broadway role was Tall Boy in Billy Elliot the Musical at the Imperial Theatre, and played the roles of Michael, then Billy in the North American National Tour of the production. He made his Broadway debut at the age of eleven in Ragtime at the Neil Simon Theatre, understudying and performing the role of Edgar (The Little Boy). Career Musical theatre Ĭook performed in several productions as a child in Washington, D.C., including at Ford's Theatre and the John F.
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He attended the Professional Performing Arts School in New York City for middle school and during high school. Īt the age of seven, Cook began studying dance at the Metropolitan School of the Arts in northern Virginia. His father is a photographer, blogger, and publishing consultant. His mother the executive director of the American School Counsellor Association. He is the youngest child of Jill and Glenn Cook.

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He most recently appeared as a Jet in the 2021 film version of West Side Story and as Henry in the HBO Max horror series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (2022–present).Ĭook was born in Eden, North Carolina, and grew up in New York City and Lorton, Virginia. He has also performed in two Broadway national tours, Billy Elliot the Musical and Newsies the Musical, and appeared on television in episodes of 30 Rock, House of Cards, Veep, Law & Order: SVU, and in the HBO film Paterno.

He has appeared on Broadway in Ragtime, Billy Elliot the Musical (for which he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award), Tuck Everlasting, Mean Girls, and West Side Story. Benjamin Tyler Cook (born December 11, 1997) is an American stage actor.
