Career
Cox has worked on more than thirty productions, including West, The Jungle, The Odyssey, Arabian Nights, The Master and Margarita, They All Fall Down, Summertime, Great Men of Science, as Algren (Joseph Jefferson Awards nomination) in Nelson Algren: Foreign Keeps and a Single Day, (which went on to be adapted for television in an Emmy-nominated co-production with Window To The World), as Winston in 1984, as Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop (Joseph Jefferson nomination), as Hook in peter pan: a play,Our Town, Black Diamond, Lookingglass Alice, and most recently "Big Lake, Big City". He currently serves Lookingglass" Education and Community Program as Master Teacher. In other regional theatre, Cox has appeared at the Illinois Theatre Center, Victory Gardens, Northlight Theatre Company, The Court Theatre (Chicago), Steppenwolf Theatre, Milwaukee Representative, and Goodman Theatres.
He has directed for Eclipse Theatre Company, Piven Theatre Workshop, and his own Joseph Jefferson-nominated adaptation of The Scarlet Letter for Lookingglass.
Additionally, for the Playhouse, Cox served as co-director of their Young Company, in which capacity he directed two musical productions. He has also taught at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago as an adjunct faculty member.
Cox"s film and television acting credits include: Since You"ve Been Gone (Miramax), Chi-Girl, and Brotherhood (Showtime) Chicago Fire (National Broadcasting Company).
