Joaquin Consuelos is heading to Broadway on April 9 for his first major stage opening, stepping into the role of Young Biff in the revival of Death of a Salesman. Critics are set to watch the opening-night performance in New York City, and the audience is likely to include some very familiar faces, including his parents.
The 23-year-old, the son of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, is appearing alongside Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf in Arthur Miller’s classic. Preview performances have been running in New York since the beginning of March, building toward a night that will test how the young actor handles the pressure of a production with real prestige attached to it.
That weight is easy to measure. Death of a Salesman opened on Broadway in 1949, the same year Miller wrote it, and the play went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award for Best Play. It has been revived five times on Broadway since then, which means Consuelos is not simply joining a show — he is entering one of the most closely watched revivals of the season.
His path to this moment was not sudden. Consuelos graduated from the University of Michigan with a major in theater studies last year, and he told the school’s athletics program that he started taking more auditions after going to one on behalf of his brother. That trip changed his view of the business. “I should actually look into doing this. That was the light bulb moment,” he said.
He was still close enough to campus life to be back on stage in February 2025, when he starred in his college’s production of A Few Good Men at the Power Center in Ann Arbor. His parents and older siblings, Michael and Lola, were in the audience then, and a similar family presence is expected again when Death of a Salesman opens.
Since graduating, Consuelos has been represented by CAA & Untitled, marking a clear step into professional theater after college. That shift matters because Broadway openings can be unforgiving, especially when a newcomer is sharing the stage with veterans and facing critics on the first official night.
The tension around April 9 is not whether the production has pedigree. It does. The question is how fully Consuelos turns a promising first Broadway role into proof that his college theater years are already behind him. For him, opening night is the answer.
His father has his own Broadway return underway. Mark Consuelos is also back on stage in a revival of Fallen Angels, which opens April 19, and he said performing there has helped him after the death of his father, Saul Consuelos. “I knew I had to keep on going. I've had such a good time doing [the play]. And I know he's there watching and he's able to be part of that,” he said.
That makes April a rare month for the family: one son opening in a Broadway classic, the father preparing for his own debut in another revival. Joaquin Consuelos Broadway debut is no longer a future headline. On April 9, it becomes the main event.
