# Kevin Del Aguila
**Kevin Del Aguila** (born 1969 in [Bakersfield, California](https://www.edgepedia.org/bakersfield-california)) is an American Broadway performer, playwright, lyricist, and Emmy-winning television writer whose career runs on two parallel tracks: comic character roles in Broadway musicals and plays, and book and lyric writing for family musicals and children's television.[1](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kevin-del-aguila-406002) • [2](https://www.broadwayteachinggroup.com/people/kevin-del-aguila/) He is best known on stage for playing Osgood in *Some Like It Hot*, for which he received a 2023 Tony Award nomination and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical, and as the book writer of the off-Broadway comedy *Altar Boyz*.[1](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kevin-del-aguila-406002)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969, Bakersfield, California[1](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kevin-del-aguila-406002) |
| Signature stage role | Osgood in *Some Like It Hot* (Broadway, 2022–2023): 2023 Tony nominee, Drama Desk Award winner[1](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kevin-del-aguila-406002) |
| Best-known writing credit | Book for *Altar Boyz* (2005 off-Broadway, never on Broadway), Drama Desk Book of a Musical nominee[1](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kevin-del-aguila-406002) • [10](https://playbill.com/article/altar-boyz-announces-new-dates-for-us-tour-com-133333) |
| Other original Broadway casts | Smee in *Peter and the Starcatcher* (2012), four roles in *Rocky* (2014), Oaken in *Frozen* (2018), Actor A in *Yellow Face* (2024)[1](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kevin-del-aguila-406002) |
| Television writing | Multi-Emmy-winning writer of PBS's *Peg + Cat*; head writer of *Blue's Clues & You*[2](https://www.broadwayteachinggroup.com/people/kevin-del-aguila/) • [3](https://www.theatermania.com/news/interview-kevin-del-aguila-on-the-intertwining-path-of-broadway-star-and-childrens-entertainer_94931/) |
| Screen lyric work | Lyricist of "They're The Clades!" in Disney's animated film *Strange World* (2022)[4](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1534913/) |
| Family musicals | Book and lyrics for *Dog Man: The Musical*; books for *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* and *Madagascar* stage adaptations[3](https://www.theatermania.com/news/interview-kevin-del-aguila-on-the-intertwining-path-of-broadway-star-and-childrens-entertainer_94931/) • [2](https://www.broadwayteachinggroup.com/people/kevin-del-aguila/) |
## Stage career
Del Aguila trained as an actor and moved to New York to perform, but began writing short plays when acting work was scarce, self-producing them with fellow unemployed actors; he has said that artistic directors who saw his self-produced pieces began asking him to write for their theaters.[5](https://www.broadway.com/buzz/198365/frozens-kevin-del-aguila-loved-writing-altar-boyz-so-much-he-almost-quit-acting/) His first play, *Six Story Building*, set on six levels of a New York apartment building, won the top prize at the New York Fringe Festival in 2002.[5](https://www.broadway.com/buzz/198365/frozens-kevin-del-aguila-loved-writing-altar-boyz-so-much-he-almost-quit-acting/)
**Altar Boyz.** The turning point came when composers Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker brought him a set of comic songs about a Christian boy band with members named Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan, and Abraham. Del Aguila turned the material from "a boy band concert into a piece of theater" in about four months. *Altar Boyz* opened off-Broadway in 2005, ran for five years, and became one of the longest-running off-Broadway musicals; it had book credit to Del Aguila, who received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Book of a Musical.[5](https://www.broadway.com/buzz/198365/frozens-kevin-del-aguila-loved-writing-altar-boyz-so-much-he-almost-quit-acting/) • [1](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kevin-del-aguila-406002) • [10](https://playbill.com/article/altar-boyz-announces-new-dates-for-us-tour-com-133333) The show earned him a New York Outer Critics Circle Award, with additional Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations.[2](https://www.broadwayteachinggroup.com/people/kevin-del-aguila/)
**Broadway performing.** As a performer he has appeared in the original Broadway casts of *Peter and the Starcatcher* (Smee, 2012), *Rocky* (2014, playing Mike, a watchman, a doctor, and Jack), *Frozen* (Oaken, 2018–2020), *Some Like It Hot* (Osgood, 2022–2023), and the [Roundabout](https://www.edgepedia.org/roundabout) production of *Yellow Face* (Actor A, 2024).[1](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kevin-del-aguila-406002) His off-Broadway and regional work includes *Little Shop of Horrors* (Mushnik replacement, 2021 revival), *Love's Labour's Lost* at Shakespeare in the Park, *God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater* for City Center Encores!, and the 2006 revival of *Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris*.[6](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Kevin-Del-Aguila/) • [2](https://www.broadwayteachinggroup.com/people/kevin-del-aguila/) In 2026 he was cast as The Man Who Dies (Mortimer) in the Broadway premiere of *The Fantasticks* at the Hayes Theater, directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, running from November 16, 2026 to February 7, 2027.[7](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-fantasticks-547118)
**Some Like It Hot.** His performance as the smitten Osgood in the 2022 Broadway musical adaptation brought the 2023 Tony nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical, and an Outer Critics Circle nomination.[1](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kevin-del-aguila-406002) • [6](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Kevin-Del-Aguila/)
## Writing for young audiences
A second career in children's entertainment grew out of a chance referral: a contact passed his name along, and he found that in children's television "your name gets thrown around like wildfire." He wrote on *Peg + Cat* for two seasons and won multiple Emmys for it; the New York Theatre Guide counts two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Pre-School Animated Program for that series.[3](https://www.theatermania.com/news/interview-kevin-del-aguila-on-the-intertwining-path-of-broadway-star-and-childrens-entertainer_94931/) • [8](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/kevin-del-aguila) He served as head writer of *Blue's Clues & You* for Nick Jr., a role he held through the pandemic, when continuing to write from home kept him working after *Frozen* closed.[2](https://www.broadwayteachinggroup.com/people/kevin-del-aguila/) • [3](https://www.theatermania.com/news/interview-kevin-del-aguila-on-the-intertwining-path-of-broadway-star-and-childrens-entertainer_94931/)
His stage writing for families includes the book and lyrics for TheaterWorksUSA's *Dog Man: The Musical*, which premiered at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2019, and books for adaptations of *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* and DreamWorks' *Madagascar*.[3](https://www.theatermania.com/news/interview-kevin-del-aguila-on-the-intertwining-path-of-broadway-star-and-childrens-entertainer_94931/) • [2](https://www.broadwayteachinggroup.com/people/kevin-del-aguila/) Earlier family-theater work brought Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations for the off-Broadway shows *Skippyjon Jones*, *Click, Clack, Moo* (Outstanding Lyrics nomination, 2010), and *We the People: America Rocks!*[1](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kevin-del-aguila-406002) • [2](https://www.broadwayteachinggroup.com/people/kevin-del-aguila/) For film, he wrote lyrics for the song "They're The Clades!" in Disney's *Strange World* (2022), and he voiced a troll in the original *Frozen* film.[4](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1534913/) • [2](https://www.broadwayteachinggroup.com/people/kevin-del-aguila/)
## Plays and other work
Del Aguila received the Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville for his play *The Greekest of All Tragedies*.[2](https://www.broadwayteachinggroup.com/people/kevin-del-aguila/) His television acting credits include *Law & Order: SVU*, Hulu's *[Deadbeat](https://www.edgepedia.org/deadbeat-tv-series)*, and *Peg + Cat*, and since 2025 he has voiced Baxter in the animated series *Hazbin Hotel*.[6](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Kevin-Del-Aguila/) • [4](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1534913/) He also works as a teaching artist with the Broadway Teachers Workshop, a professional development program for theater educators produced with Music Theatre International.[9](https://playbill.com/article/annaleigh-ashford-kevin-del-aguila-christian-borle-more-will-work-with-educators-at-2023-broadway-teachers-workshop)
## References
1. [Kevin Del Aguila – Broadway Cast & Staff, IBDB](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kevin-del-aguila-406002)
2. [Kevin Del Aguila, Broadway Teaching Group](https://www.broadwayteachinggroup.com/people/kevin-del-aguila/)
3. [Interview: Kevin Del Aguila on the Intertwining Path of Broadway Star and Children's Entertainer, TheaterMania](https://www.theatermania.com/news/interview-kevin-del-aguila-on-the-intertwining-path-of-broadway-star-and-childrens-entertainer_94931/)
4. [Kevin Del Aguila, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1534913/)
5. [Frozen's Kevin Del Aguila Loved Writing Altar Boyz So Much, He Almost Quit Acting, Broadway.com Buzz](https://www.broadway.com/buzz/198365/frozens-kevin-del-aguila-loved-writing-altar-boyz-so-much-he-almost-quit-acting/)
6. [Kevin Del Aguila, BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Kevin-Del-Aguila/)
7. [The Fantasticks – Broadway Musical – Original, IBDB](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-fantasticks-547118)
8. [Kevin Del Aguila On Stage, New York Theatre Guide](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/kevin-del-aguila)
9. [Annaleigh Ashford, Kevin Del Aguila, Christian Borle, More Will Work With Educators at 2023 Broadway Teachers Workshop, Playbill](https://playbill.com/article/annaleigh-ashford-kevin-del-aguila-christian-borle-more-will-work-with-educators-at-2023-broadway-teachers-workshop)
10. [Altar Boyz Announces New Dates for U.S. Tour](https://playbill.com/article/altar-boyz-announces-new-dates-for-us-tour-com-133333)
---
*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Theater and dance › Stage practitioners and craft › Acting: theory, technique, and teachers › Acting coaches and training biographies › Overview of acting teaching and coaching*
*Initially written Sep 17, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 12, 2026; Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*
*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*
License: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license