CURRENT RESIDENCE: Chicago, Illinois
YEAR JOINED ENSEMBLE: 1998
POSITION: Actor
AMERICAN BLUES THEATER CREDITS
Side Man
It’s a Wonderful Life: Live at the Biograph!
Augusta
A Lie of the Mind
Below the Belt
One Day Below
Threepenny Opera
Scapin
Stalag 17
ABOUT ED
Theater credits (outside of American Blues): 1776 (Marriot Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof and West Side Story (Lyric Opera Of Chicago); Hazel (Drury Lane Oakbrook); Sister Act and Shear Madness (Mercury Theater); The Jungle Book and Animal Crackers (The Goodman); I Love Lucy (Broadway Playhouse); Little Shop of Horrors and Unnecessary Farce (Peninsula Players); Sex and the Second City (Second City Theatricals); and The Wizard Of Oz and Princess and the Pea (Chicago Shakespeare Theater).
Hosting: The Sing Along Wizard of Oz at the Nederlander Theater in Chicago and The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles; New Faces Sing Broadway for Porchlight Theater; The 37th Annual Jeff Awards; Chicago Filmmakers 50th Anniversary; and dozens of American Blues benefits over the years including Blue Bash, Valentunes, and cabarets.
Film: Ocean’s 12; Road to Perdition; Chili Finger; Rounding; Before Anyone Else; and With a Family Like Mine.
Television: Boss; Cupid; Chicago Fire; Chicago Med; Early Edition; Fargo; Sirens; and two seasons as Glenn Purdue on Amazon Prime’s Patriot. Additionally, Ed has appeared in over 75 commercials
Website: edkross.com
Instagram: @edkross
IMDB: Ed Kross
Represented by Stewart Talent
FUN FACT
Ed’s parents went to the circus on their first date. Ed spent 7 years as a professional stilt walker with The Midnight Circus. Choose your first date carefully.