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Ben Rappaport

Ben Rappaport stars in NBC's comedy series Outsourced as Todd Dempsy, a young, top American salesman who has been reassigned to run an outsourced call center in India for Mid America Novelties, a catalog-based company that sells kitschy American novelties. Having never ventured out of the country, Todd is unprepared for the culture shock. However, he soon finds his family and a place to call home, all while teaching his new Indian employees how to think, speak and breathe American.

Rappaport is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School's Drama Division, where he received the Drama Division's highest honor, the Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize.

Rappaport starred in the off-Broadway production of The Gingerbread House at stageFARM at Rattlestick. His regional credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Paradise Now at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; Twelfth Night at The Actor Factory; and Best of Shakespearean Romance at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Rappaport has also worked with the Red Bull Theater, Ars Nova, Naked Angels, The Actors Studio, and New Dramatists.

His credits at Juilliard include the Narrator in Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale conducted by James Conlon; Andrey in The Three Sisters; Weston Hurley in Fifth of July; and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night.


Note: This profile was written in or before 2011.

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