Geoff Button

  • Height: 5’7”

  • Weight: 170 lbs

  • Voice: Baritone   

  • Pronouns: He/Him/His                                             

Theater: Representative Roles

  • All Our Tragic (Remount), playing Orestes, Prometheus, Rhesus, and Eteokles, for The Hypocrites

    • Equity Jeff Awards - Best Play (Mid-size), Best Ensemble

  • All Our Tragic, playing Orestes, Prometheus and Eteokles, for The Hypocrites

    • Broadway World Awards - Best Actor in a Play, Best New Work, Best Ensemble

  • Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses, playing Orestes, Neoptolemus, etc., for The Hypocrites

    • Non-Equity Jeff Award - Best Play, Non-Equity Jeff Nomination – Best Ensemble

  • Woyzeck, playing Woyzeck, for The Hypocrites

  • Cherrywood, playing Mono, for Mary Arrchie Theater Company

  • Mud, playing Lloyd, for The Hypocrites

  • Equus, playing Alan Strang, for The Hypocrites

    • Non-Equity Jeff Awards - Best Actor in a Play, Best Play

  • Othello, playing Iago, for A Crew of Patches

  • Hatfield and McCoy, playing Tolbert McCoy, for The House Theater of Chicago

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, playing Lysander, for A Crew of Patches

  • Julius Caesar, playing Marc Antony, for A Crew of Patches

  • Johnny Tremain, playing Johnny Tremain, for Lifeline Theater Company

  • Three Tall Women, playing Young Man, for Apple Tree Theater

  • Balm in Gilead, playing Dopey, for The Hypocrites

    • Non-Equity Jeff Nomination - Best Ensemble

  • The Outsiders, playing Ponyboy, for Apple Tree Theater TYA

  • Indian Ink, playing Eric, for Apple Tree Theater

  • The Pyrates, playing Peg Leg, for Defiant Theater Company

  • Little Shop of Horrors, playing Seymour, for Wagon Wheel Theater

  • Machinal, playing Various Roles, for The Hypocrites

    • Non-Equity Jeff Awards - Best Play, Best Ensemble

  • Arcadia, playing Gus/Augustus, for The Hypocrites

  • And Then They Came For Me, playing Hitler Youth, for Apple Tree Theater TYA

  • Henry 5, playing Boy/Burgundy, for The Hypocrites

  • Ajax, playing Stavros, for The Hypocrites

Commercial and Industrial Acting Work

  • NASCAR/Old Spice, Principal Role, for Mr. Big Film

Training and Additional Honors

  • Distinguished Alumni, Western Michigan University, 2015

  • TimeOut Chicago Theater Award Nominations, Best Production of a Musical and Best Director, Adding Machine: A Musical, 2016

  • Jeff Citation Nominations, Best Director and Best Play, True West, The Hypocrites, 2005

  • Artistic Council and Company Member, The Hypocrites

  • B.A. in Theater Performance, Western Michigan University

  • M.F.A. in Theater Directing, Northwestern University

  • Chicago Shakespeare Theater Workshop, Folio Technique, Larry Yando, 2014

Special Skills

  • Multiple dialects

  • Trained singer (baritone)

  • Extremely flexible

  • Can flip a lit cigarette into mouth