Chad Kimball (born September 2, 1976) is an American theater actor. Kimball was raised in Seattle, Washington and graduated from Boston Conservatory with a BFA in musical theatre in 1999. After moving to New York City, he was hired for the Broadway musical The Civil War, joining the show three weeks before it closed. He was in the Off-Broadway revival of Godspell (2000) and the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods (2002) as Milky-White the cow. He appeared in the Broadway musicals Lennon and Good Vibrations in 2005. Kimball originated the lead role in the musical Memphis at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2008, and starred in the role in the Broadway production until fall 2011.