Patrick Ball stars as Dr. Frank Langdon in the Emmy Award-winning HBO Max series The Pitt, for which he received a 2026 Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. On stage, Ball most recently starred in the title role in the Center Theatre Group production of Hamlet, directed by Robert O'Hara. Previous theater credits include Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard (Tectonic Theater Project/Miami New Drama); The XIXth (Old Globe); Pinter’s The Collection and The Lover (Shakespeare Theatre Company); All My Sons (Repertory Theatre of St Louis); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Illusion, The Passion of Theresa Rae King (A World Premiere Appalachian adaptation of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin) at Triad Stage; Sex with Strangers (at Theatreworks Hartford/Theatre Aspen); Shining City (Barrington Stage); and world premiere adaptations of Tarkovsky's Solaris and Zulawski’s That Most Important Thing: Love with Dangerous Grounds. A recent graduate of Yale School of Drama, Ball is represented by Gersh, Authentic Talent and Literary Management, Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, and Shelter PR. He will be making his Broadway debut with this production.
(Patrick Ball, photo by Richard Knapp)