John Hill (actor)

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title: "John Hill (actor)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1978-births", "20th-century-american-lgbtq-people", "21st-century-american-lgbtq-people", "american-gay-actors", "american-gay-musicians", "american-male-musical-theatre-actors", "living-people"] description: "American musical theater actor (born 1978)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hill_(actor)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American musical theater actor (born 1978) ::

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Field	Value
name	John Hill
birthname	John Arthur Hill
birth_date
birth_place	San Antonio, Texas, US
occupation	Actor, producer
yearsactive	1990–present
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| name = John Hill | birthname = John Arthur Hill | birth_date = | birth_place = San Antonio, Texas, US | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actor, producer | yearsactive = 1990–present John Arthur Hill (born October 23, 1977) is an American musical theater actor and television producer who is most well known for playing Jason McConnell in the off-Broadway run of Bare: A Pop Opera and for being a producer on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. He also developed a following on his former website, John Hill Online, with his comedy video series entitled "Johnny and Kooks" made with his friend Katharine Leonard. The pair released a single on iTunes entitled "About You". He grew up in San Antonio, Texas and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Career

Theater

Hill has appeared in the Broadway musicals Hairspray (in the original Broadway cast as Fender) and The Boy from Oz (in the original Broadway cast as Mark Herron). In The Boy from Oz, he also understudied the roles of Greg and the lead role of Peter Allen, though he never went on as Peter Allen. In Hairspray, he also understudied the roles of Link Larkin and Corny Collins; he did go on as Link Larkin. He starred opposite Michael Arden and Jenna Leigh Green in the original off-Broadway cast of Bare: A Pop Opera in the leading role of Jason. He was set to return to the role when the show was going to move to a new theater after a few months on break, but the move never happened; a demo of 11 tracks from this production was recorded, but the remaining tracks were never recorded when the production did not resume. Along with most of the cast, he appeared in the "Bare's Back Concert" after the show closed. He also appeared in the musical adaptation of But I'm A Cheerleader at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2005. In June 2006, he wrote and performed the solo show Skinny Corpse at in Manhattan, directed by Ben Rimalower. He also took part in the mini-musical Prop 8: The Musical.

Television

In 2007, he produced an 8-part documentary for MTV called Show Choir. This program followed the IMAGES choir of Morgantown High School in West Virginia and its members.

Hill has also served as producer for Dance on Sunset, Tori and Dean, The D-List, All About Aubrey, Project Runway, Top Chef, and Attack of the Show!.

He was the co-executive producer and writer as well as an on-camera panelist on the Bravo show The Approval Matrix, based on the feature in New York. In 2011, Hill was executive producer of the Logo spinoff The A-List: Dallas.

Hill is a producer on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen and host of The Feels on Radio Andy, Andy Cohen's Sirius XM Channel. He also wrote for Love Connection on FOX, where Cohen served as host.

Personal life

Hill is gay. He was previously in a relationship with his Radio Andy co-host Andy Cohen.

Recordings

• "About You" by Johnny and Kooks
• Hairspray cast recording (as Fender)
• The Boy from Oz original Broadway cast recording (as Mark Herron)
• Bare: A Pop Opera original cast demo recording
• But I'm A Cheerleader demo recording

References

References

1. johnnyandkooks. (March 11, 2006). "'Johnny and Kooks' is born!".
2. "John Hill (Performer)".
3. "John Hill – Broadway Cast & Staff".
4. Brockman, Craig. (April 22, 2004). "Interview with a heartthrob: The 'bare' necessities of John Hill!".
5. (September 30, 2004). "PLANS FOR BARE PUT ON HOLD".
6. "John Hill: Skinny Corpse".
7. Gans, Andrew. (April 21, 2009). "Prop 8: The Musical Wins GLAAD Media Award".
8. (October 9, 2006). "MTV Greenlights 8-Part Documentary 'Show Choir'".
9. Wong, Wayman. (June 1, 2006). "THE LEADING MEN: Most Happy Fellas".
10. (September 26, 2017). "Reality Check: Talking Pets with John Hill".
11. Casey, Kate. (July 29, 2017). "Interview with Radio Andy Host John Hill".
12. Vena, Jocelyn. (July 11, 2017). "Andy Cohen Really Doesn't Care When Celebrities Break Up".

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