Ben Platt Biography

At 9 years old Platt played Winthrop Paroo in The Music Man at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Kristin Chenoweth. At 11 he appeared in a brief national tour with Caroline or Change originally by Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner. At 17 he played Jean Valjean in a youth theatre production of Les Misérables.
Platt played a supporting role in the film Pitch Perfect as magic-obsessed Benji Applebaum. He was subsequently nominated at a Teen Choice Awards in the category Choice Movie: Male Scene Stealer for his work.
He has also collaborated on a workshop of Alice by Heart by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater as a new take on Alice in Wonderland. Other roles include the role of Claude Bukowski in Columbia's musical theatre production of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.
Platt played Elder Cunningham in the Chicago production of The Book of Mormon the nine-time Tony Award-winning musical. He later reprised his role on Broadway.

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