His career has ranged from prestige dramas like 1923, Dead Ringers, and Westworld to broad comedy and musical theatre, including the Off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz and Francis Ford Coppola’s stage musical Gidget. He earned widespread acclaim and the 2024
BroadwayWorld Award for his performance as Joe Biden in the hit musical satire 44, a role that showcasedthe explosive comic energy, imagination, and commanding physicality audiences have come to associate with his work.
Doreck joined SAG at eight years old and was later selected into the highly competitive acting conservatory at Orange County School of the Arts alongside a generation of young performers who wouldgo on to win Tony, Emmy, and Academy Awards. He continued extensively in acting, voice, speech, dance, fencing, stage combat, and even Krav Maga, developing the cultivated physicality and cross-disciplinary versatility that have become hallmarks of his work.
Deeply inspired by the versatile stars of classic Hollywood, Doreck is also an accomplished singer, songwriter, and dancer who has worked with artists and choreographers ranging from Debbie Allen to Wade Robson. A devoted collector of vintage vinyl records with a particular love of 90s R&B, he can often be found tending the “Certified Wildlife Habitat” he created at his Los Angeles home, or searching for great donuts.
Raised in a blue-collar family in Southern California, Chad is a charismatic leading man known for his sophisticated wit, fearless comic vitality, and theatrical command across television, film, theatre, and voiceover.