Ricky Ubeda (born 1995/1996) is an American dancer and actor known for winning

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of '' So You Think You Can Dance''.

Early life and career

Ubeda was born in Miami, Florida, and graduated from Coral Reef Senior High School in May 2014. While in high school, Ubeda auditioned for

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's dance-competition reality series '' So You Think You Can Dance'' and was chosen as one of 20 competitors for the show's eleventh season, which aired weekly from July through September 2014. Ubeda won the competition and, as part of his prize, received an ensemble role in the 2014 Broadway revival of '' On the Town''. He performed in the role from February 27 through April 26, 2015. Ubeda's next Broadway appearance was as

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in the 2016 revival of ''

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''. For this role, he was nominated for the 2017 Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show. In 2018, Ubeda performed in the ensemble of ''

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'' on Broadway. Ubeda played Indio (a member of the Sharks gang) and understudied Bernardo in the 2020 Broadway revival of '' West Side Story'', which opened in February and closed in March, due to the COVID-19 Broadway shutdown. He appears as Flaco, another Shark, in

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's 2021 film adaptation of the musical. He has also toured with Travis Wall's dance company, Shaping Sound. He appeared as one of Jack Cole's dancers in an episode of the 2019 FX miniseries '' Fosse/Verdon''.

Theatre credits

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