Corey Mach

Corey Mach is an American stage actor and producer born in 1987 in Strongsville, Ohio. His early theatrical training took place at Cleveland-area venues including Cain Park in Cleveland Heights and the Cassidy Theatre in Parma Heights. After graduating from Strongsville High School, Mach enrolled at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, where he majored in musical theater. During his time there he took on leading roles in productions including Parade, in which he played Leo Frank; Chess, where he portrayed Anatoly; Pippin; Harold & Maude; Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party; and The Last Five Years. His sophomore year included a stint on the international tour of Rent, during which he played Gordon and understudied both Mark and Roger. Before completing his degree, he earned his Actor's Equity card playing Austin in the Playhouse Square production of I Love You Because. In the week of his 2010 graduation, he relocated to New York City to participate in the first reading of Disney's Newsies.

Mach's professional touring career began shortly after graduation when he joined the First National Tour of Wicked, performing in the ensemble and understudying the role of Fiyero. He subsequently made his Broadway debut as the standby for Hunter Parrish in the role of Jesus in the First Broadway Revival of Godspell. While serving as an off-stage standby on that production, he created the concert series Broadway Sings, which pairs Broadway performers with a 14-piece orchestra to rearrange and re-orchestrate the catalog of well-known pop artists. Each performer co-arranges their own song based on their individual vocal strengths. In 2013, Mach joined the Broadway cast of Hands on a Hardbody, written by Trey Anastasio and lyricist Amanda Green. That same year he was cast as Nick Hurley, the leading role in the First National Tour of Flashdance.

While touring with Flashdance in 2014, Mach saw a production of Witness Uganda at American Repertory Theater. After a rewriting process that included renaming the show Invisible Thread and reconfiguring a leading female role into a male character, he auditioned and was cast as Ryan in the Off-Broadway production at Second Stage Theater in 2015. That same week he was cast in the World Premiere of Waitress at American Repertory Theater, written by Sara Bareilles and directed by Diane Paulus. He subsequently appeared in three additional North American premieres: as Robert E. Lee Prewitt in From Here to Eternity, written by Tim Rice, at Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival; as Simon in Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, a play with music written and directed by James Lapine and starring Debra Monk and Boyd Gaines, at Washington D.C.'s Signature Theater; and as Charles Gordon Windsor, Jr. in Mystic Pizza, the musical adaptation of the 1988 film, at Ogunquit Playhouse. In 2017, he played Quasimodo in the regional premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a joint production of Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Great Lakes Theater.

In 2018, Mach was cast as Harry in the Broadway production of Kinky Boots, where he also understudied the role of Charlie Price, covering performers including Jake Shears, Tyler Glenn, Mark Ballas, Conor Maynard, and David Cook. He remained with the production through its closing in 2019. In 2022, he joined the Off-Broadway cast of Merrily We Roll Along as Tyler, opposite Daniel Radcliffe, while also understudying Tony winner Jonathan Groff in the role of Franklin Shepard. When the production transferred to Broadway, opening at the Hudson Theater in 2023, the Off-Broadway cast remained intact. In 2024, Mach was cast in the leading role of William Shakespeare in the First National Tour of the Broadway musical & Juliet, with engagements scheduled in Chicago, Washington D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, and San Diego. His Broadway credits span from 2005 to 2024 and also include Barack on Broadway and the play Julie.

On television, Mach has appeared in supporting roles across multiple series, including FBI on CBS, Uncoupled on Netflix, The Blacklist on NBC, Monsterland on Hulu, and the Steve McQueen-directed Codes of Conduct. In 2024, he was cast opposite Nathan Lane in the second season of Elsbeth on CBS.