Ben Giroux – Actor, Producer, Writer

Publication: The Arizona Republic
By: Alison Stanton
Special for The Arizona Republic
Date: September 18, 2007

Ever since he was a little boy, Ben Giroux has had both acting and comedy in his blood.

“I was that 4-year-old running around the house having my parents film me on an old antiquated video recorder,” he said, laughing. “I was the class clown, and a complete goof, and somewhere there is a photo of my Dad holding me up to the TV to watch The Three Stooges when I was 2 years old.”

Giroux, 22, and the son of Alan and Marsha Giroux, owners of All About Books & Comics in Phoenix, said he is determined to make a career out of his love of acting and comedy.

So far, it appears he is well on his way to achieving his dream.

Since graduating from Sunnyslope High School in 2003 and the University of Southern California, Giroux, now a Los Angeles resident, landed a guest role in the second season of the USA Network’s hit comedy Psych. The episode aired back in August.

Giroux will also appear in Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s upcoming FOX pilot episode of Unhitched that will air sometime next year.

Giroux said he is living proof that with a lot of hard work, anyone can achieve their dream.

“Literally, I feel like the luckiest kid on the planet,” he said. “You have to be the most determined person in the world and if you are, good things will happen to you.”

Play Reviewed: Neil Simon’s Rumors
Theatre: Phoenix Theatre
Publication: Arizona Get-Out Magazine
Date: August 9, 2002
Review By: Max McQueen

Want to see a star being born? Rush to “Rumors” at Phoenix College to see Ben Giroux. We’d heard rumors that this East Valley young man is as funny as all get out. It’s true. Giroux is the best homegrown comedic actor we’ve seen in 20 years, since Bob Sorensen’s bow. It’s easy to be great in well-crafted roles in well-written plays. But Neil Simon offers neither to Giroux in “Rumors,” the playwright’s nod to “Noises Off,” Michael Frayne’s British madcap comedy. Giroux is one-eighth of an ensemble of four Long Island couples gathered for a 10th anniversary party.

With the wild-eyed intensity of Al Pacino, the razor-sharp timing of Groucho Marx, and the manic energy of Robin Williams, Giroux seizes his money-mad accountant and turns him into a human pitbull. We’re suprized director David Chorley doesn’t have him on a leash. It’s up to Giroux to make sense of the evenings outrageous proceedings. And so Giroux takes a deep breath, dives in, and with lightening speed runs through the whole bloody mess with a split-second delivery that would leave a tobacco auctioneer green with envy. He left Friday’s playgoers double checking the name of the human hurricane that took their breath away. It’s Ben Giroux. Remember it. Giroux has all the makings of major show business talent. That’s no lie.