SAG-AFTRA, AEA

Watch/Listen Now: 

• Performed in the star-studded Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration ("Someone in a Tree") on Broadway.com, Spring 2020
• "Democracy" music video from the Off-Broadway new musical Soft Power (get the cast album HERE!) - Spring 2020 - The album (and Austin as a named principal soloist!) is nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album! 
• Guest star in the webseries Assisted Living the Series (episode 1), Spring 2020
• Principal roles in podcasts of short play "Not That Difficult" and short musical "What Will She Do Next" (episode 105), Fall 2020
   

Upcoming:

• Recurring role on an upcoming new Netflix series
• Supporting role in a family feature film
• Several virtual readings, podcasts, benefit concerts, and more...
   

Recent Highlights:   

• The LEAD role in the new musical Shanghai Sonatas in the UDel Master Players Concert Series, Winter 2020 - watch the TRAILER HERE!
• A principal role in the NYC premiere of new musical Soft Power at The Public Theater Off-Broadway, Fall 2019
• A principal role in the Paint Your Wagon revisal at The Muny, Summer 2019

• "It is Austin Ku who steals the show" - Jan Nargi, BROADWAYWORLD.COM 
• "He's the funniest thing onstage" - Louise Kennedy, BOSTON GLOBE 
• "A find" - David C. Nichols, LOS ANGELES TIMES
• "It's refreshing to hear Austin Ku's natural voice" - Steven Winn, SF CHRONICLE 
• "An expert storyteller" - Madeleine Marshall, DC METRO THEATER ARTS
• "A standout" - Deb Miller, DC METRO THEATER ARTS

• Nominee, Best Musical Theater Album (principal soloists) - Grammy Award
• Nominee, Supporting Actor in a Musical - Philadelphia-area Barrymore Award
• Nominee, Supporting Actor in a Musical (Large Theater) - New England-area IRNE Award
• Nominee, Lead Actor in a Musical (Medium Theater) - BroadwayWorld Boston Award
• Recipient, Supporting Actor in a Musical - Bay Area Dean Goodman Choice Award
• Recipient, Lead Actor in a Musical - WISE Foundation Award

I was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, where I grew up playing violin, then piano and choir, then school musicals and plays.

I went to Rice University, where I studied opera and kept doing the school musicals and plays, and started some modeling.

Then I went to UC Berkeley School of Law, yet I couldn't stop doing the school musicals and plays, modeling and commercials.

I became a lawyer, but had a lot more fun doing local musicals and plays, modeling and commercials, and even a little film.

So I got a theater degree at The Boston Conservatory, while doing musicals and plays, modeling and commercials, film and TV.

Now I live in NYC, and I make my living doing musicals and plays, modeling and commercials, film and TV... and hand modeling!

I still play the violin. 

I also love cooking and all things food-related.