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John Patrick Page (born April 27, 1962) is an American actor, basso profondo singer, and playwright. Beginning his career in classical theatre and the works of Shakespeare, he originated the Broadway roles of the Grinch in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (2006–2007), Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in (2011–2012), and Hades in Hadestown (2019–2022), the last of which earned him a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
In his teens, he developed an interest in magic and illusion. In 1978 he won the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians Stage Competition and in 1979 he was chosen by the International Brotherhood of Magicians as the Outstanding Teenage Magician in the stage-magic category.
Page attended Central High School in Independence, Oregon, graduating in 1980. During high school, Page was active not only in theater, but also in speech and debate tournaments and became the first person to win the national championship title twice, as the National Forensics League's Speaker of the Year in both 1979 and 1980. Next, he attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Allan Hancock College. He then graduated cum laude from Whitman College in 1985 and was chosen as the valedictory speaker for his class. During his time at Whitman, Page was twice chosen as the Outstanding Competitive Speaker in the Nation by the American Forensics Association, leading the Whitman team to an overall second-place finish at Nationals.
Page's Broadway credits include originating the role of The Grinch in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Scar in The Lion King and Lumière in Disney's Beauty and the Beast in the U.S. National Tours, both of which he later reprised on Broadway, Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden, Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar (opposite Denzel Washington), and multiple roles in The Kentucky Cycle. His performance as Henry VIII (opposite Frank Langella) in the Broadway revival of A Man for All Seasons in 2008 was nominated for the Outer Critics Award and chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one of the outstanding theatre performances of that year.
Off-Broadway, he has been seen in Richard II, Rex, and The Duchess of Malfi. Page is also widely recognized as one of America's leading classical actors. He is an Affiliate Artist of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and an Artist in Residence at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. As a member of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, he, along with other company members, received the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre (Will Award) in 2007. In 2006 Page was awarded the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Leading Performance by an Actor for his portrayal of Iago in Michael Kahn's production of Othello at The Shakespeare Theatre. Washington Post critic Peter Marks cited Page's Iago as one of five outstanding American performances of Shakespeare in his lifetime, along with Stacy Keach, Liev Schreiber, Kevin Kline, and Michael Hayden. Page's other performances at STC include the title role in Macbeth (opposite Kelly McGillis) and Claudius in Hamlet. He starred in the title role of King Lear at the Shakespeare Theatre Company through April 8, 2023.
At the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Page's performance in the title role of Cyrano De Bergerac won the Craig Noel, San Diego Critics, and Patte Awards for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play. He has also been seen at the Globe as Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Pogo Poole in The Pleasure of His Company, and Geoffrey Cordova in Dancing in the Dark (aka The Band Wagon) for which he also received the Craig Noel Award. Page has performed at many of America's leading regional theatres. His classical performances include Cyrano, Sergius, Prince Hamlet, Richard II, Richard III, Oberon, Henry V, Talbot, Pinch, Armado, Mercutio, Brutus, Mark Antony, Dr. Caius, Autolycus, Pandarus, Brazen, Hortensio, Malvolio, Horatio, Claudius, Iago, Jaques, Macbeth, and Benedick. Page is also a playwright. In 2004 his play Swansong debuted at the Lucille Lortel White Barn Theatre in Norwalk, Connecticut, and was named one of the top ten plays of the year by the American Theatre Critics Association. It later played at the Kennedy Center, the Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Off-Broadway on Theatre Row.
Page is also the author of the one-man shows Passion's Slaves and Love Will, and the co-author (with Doug Christensen and Larry Baker) of Nothing Like the Sun. Page authored a popular stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Page is also an acting teacher who has worked at NYU's Tisch Graduate School of the Arts, the Old Globe's MFA program, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's MFA program, Southern Utah University, and many others. He now teaches privately in New York City. He has directed Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, and many more.
Page played the title role in Shakespeare Theatre Company's Coriolanus from March to June 2013. Page appeared in the Broadway production of John Grisham's A Time to Kill. The production started on September 28, 2013, and officially opened on October 20, 2013. He appeared in the new play Casa Valentina, which opened on Broadway in April 2014.Purcell, Carey. "Harvey Fierstein's 'Casa Valentina', Starring Patrick Page, Mare Winningham and Gabriel Ebert, Begins Broadway Performances April 1" playbill.com, April 1, 2014 He originated the role of Frollo in the U.S. premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, made his Shakespeare in the Park debut in Cymbeline, and in fall 2015 played Adult Men in the Spring Awakening revival produced by Deaf West and directed by his Hunchback co-star Michael Arden.
Page played a role in the 2022 musical film Spirited as Jacob Marley alongside Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell.
In 2024, Page began a national tour of All the Devils are Here, a one-man show exploring Shakespeare's villains. The play opened at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis.
Page played Satan in the Helluva Boss episode “Mastermind.” He voices the Magic Mirror in Disney's 2025 film Snow White.
He has been an outspoken advocate for mental-health awareness and has spoken publicly about his lifelong experience with deep Dysthymia, which he now manages with medication: "It took a long time to get my medications right. I have variously been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, depressive disorder—you name it. It takes constant vigilance to keep up with my sneaky serotonin levels. And—full disclosure—there were years of dangerous substance abuse as I attempted to self-medicate my symptoms." Page also suffers from hearing loss and has been an advocate for adding closed captioning to live musicals, as well as increasing the recording volumes of soundtracks.
| 1996 | The Substance of Fire | Mr. McCormack Jr. | |
| 2013 | Sing Along | Homeless Guy | Short film |
| 2014 | Affluenza | Jack Goodman | |
| 2015 | I Am Michael | Bible Teacher | |
| A Warrior's Tail | Elza (voice) | English dub | |
| 2021 | In the Heights | Pike Phillips | |
| The Sixth Reel | Mr. Beltrane | ||
| 2022 | Spirited | Jacob Marley | |
| 2025 | Snow White | Magic Mirror (voice) |
| 1989 | The Animated Book of Mormon | King Lamoni (voice) | Episode: "Ammon, Missionary to the Lamanites" |
| 1991 | Animated Hero Classics | Bosco (voice) | Episode: "Christopher Columbus" |
| 2007–2020 | Jack Rexton Alistair Woodford | Episode: "Harm" Episode: "Dance, Lies and Videotape" | |
| 2011 | Late Night with David Letterman | Green Goblin (uncredited) | Episode: "Bono & The Edge/Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" |
| 2012 | The Good Wife | Horton Baker | Episode: "After the Fall" |
| 2015 | Flesh and Bone | Sergei Zelenkov | Miniseries; 6 episodes |
| Elementary | Jonathan Bloom | 2 episodes | |
| 2016 | The Blacklist | Rene Le Bron | Episode: "The Thrushes (No. 53)" |
| 2017 | Chicago P.D. | Calvin Huntley | Episode: "Little Bit of Light" |
| Madam Secretary | Reverend Slattery | 3 episodes | |
| 2018 | General Stanley Parker | Episode: "Welcome to the Jungle" | |
| 2020–2022 | Evil | Father Luke | 2 episodes |
| 2022–present | The Gilded Age | Richard Clay | 15 episodes |
| 2023 | Schmigadoon! | Octavius Kratt | 5 episodes |
| Big Mouth | Dread (voice) | 2 episodes | |
| 2024 | Helluva Boss | Satan (voice) | Episode: "Mastermind" |
| 2025 | Étoile | Uncle John Fish | 3 episodes |
| 1986 | Love's Labor's Lost | Don Adriano de Armado | Utah Shakespeare Festival |
| Julius Caesar | Marcus Brutus | ||
| 1987 | The Tragedy of King Richard the Third | Richard, Duke of Gloucester | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Leonato | ||
| 1990 | The Comedy of Errors | Duke Solinus | Pioneer Theatre Company |
| 1993 | The Kentucky Cycle | Various | Kennedy Center |
| 1993–1994 | Original Broadway cast | ||
| 1995–1997 | Beauty and the Beast | Lumière | National Tour |
| 1999–2001 | Broadway replacement | ||
| 2002 | The Lion King | Scar | National Tour |
| 2003 | Beauty and the Beast | Lumière | Broadway replacement |
| 2004 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Shakespeare Theatre Company |
| 2005 | Julius Caesar | Decius Brutus Ennodius Messala Ensemble Understudy for Cassius | Original Broadway cast |
| 2005–2006 | The Lion King | Scar | Broadway Replacement |
| 2006 | Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical | Grinch | Original Broadway cast |
| 2007 | The Lion King | Scar | Broadway Replacement |
| Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical | Grinch | Original Broadway cast | |
| 2008 | Hamlet | Claudius | Shakespeare Theatre Company |
| A Man for All Seasons | King Henry VIII | Original Broadway cast | |
| 2010 | Oliver! | Fagin | Benedum Center for the Performing Arts |
| 2011–2012 | Norman Osborn Green Goblin | Original Broadway cast | |
| 2012 | Anastasia | Vlad Popov | Reading |
| The Sound of Music | Max Detweiler | Carnegie Hall | |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Comte de Guiche | Original Broadway cast | |
| 2013 | A Time to Kill | Rufus R. Buckley | |
| 2014 | Casa Valentina | George Valentina | |
| 2014–2015 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Dom Claude Frollo | La Jolla Playhouse Paper Mill Playhouse |
| 2015–2016 | Spring Awakening | Adult Men | Original Broadway Revival Cast |
| 2016 | Hadestown | Hades | Off-Broadway |
| An Act of God | Voice of God | Prerecorded for Broadway | |
| The Tempest | Prospero | Sidney Harman Hall | |
| 2017 | Hadestown | Hades | Citadel Theatre |
| A Musical Christmas Carol | Ebenezer Scrooge | The Byham Theater | |
| 2018 | Saint Joan | The Inquisitor Robert de Baudricourt | Original Broadway cast |
| 2018–2019 | Hadestown | Hades | London |
| 2019–2020 | Original Broadway cast | ||
| 2021–2022 | |||
| 2023 | King Lear | Lear | Shakespeare Theatre Company |
| 2023–2024 | All the Devils Are Here | Performer | Off-Broadway Also created the show |
| 2025 | Hadestown | Hades | West End replacement HADESTOWN Original Broadway Cast Members Will Join London Production Broadway World, December 18, 2024 |
| 2020 | Little Did I Know | Dr. Barrows | |
| 2020–21 | In Strange Woods | Howl | |
| 2021 | Marvel’s Wastelanders: Star-Lord | Kraven the Hunter |
| 2009 | Outer Critics Circle Award | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | A Man for All Seasons | ||
| 2012 | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | |||
| Outer Critics Circle Award | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | ||||
| 2014 | San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award | Outstanding Featured Male Performance in a Musical | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | ||
| 2017 | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Hadestown | ||
| 2019 | Tony Award | Best Featured Actor in a Musical | |||
| 2020 | Grammy Award | Best Musical Theater Album | |||
| 2023 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | The Gilded Age | ||
| 2024 | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Solo Performance | All the Devils Are Here | ||
| Outer Critics Circle Award | Outstanding Solo Performance |
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