ABOUT MICHAEL
Michael has been coaching and teaching privately for over 20 years. He has helmed guest seminars with students in several training programs, including the NYU/Atlantic Theater Acting School (currently on faculty), University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Naked Angels, The Actors Center, American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Rutgers University (Mason Gross School of the Arts).
ACTING
Broadway: Glad Hand in the recent revival of West Side Story; Juror Number Five in Twelve Angry Men at the Roundabout; Gooper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (with Ashley Judd/Jason Patric); Harry in Mamma Mia!; Rudolph Peterson in Judgement at Nuremberg; Ziggy in Side Man (also in West End and at Kennedy Center); Frank in Barrymore (with Christopher Plummer); Buzz (u/s and performed) in Love! Valour! Compassion!
Off-Broadway: Volpone (Red Bull), Any Given Monday (59E59), The Water Children (Playwrights Horizons), Escape from Happiness (Naked Angels).
Regional: The Honeymooners (Paper Mill Playhouse),The Things We Do For Love (Westport Country Playhouse), The Odd Couple (Dallas Theater Center), Anything Goes (North Shore Music Theatre), Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Theatre, DC), Fox on the Fairway, The Pillowman, The Sunshine Boys (with Jack Klugman and Paul Dooley) and Inspecting Carol (all at George Street Playhouse). Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s Nightingale (New York Stage and Film), Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls (Paper Mill), Taming of the Shrew (Old Globe), The Dinner Party (Paper Mill/Coconut Grove), Buffalo Gal (Williamstown), Substance of Fire (Coconut Grove), Italian American Reconciliation, the dreamer examines his pillow, Two Rooms, and Hate Mail (all at Penguin Rep).
TV: This season: Recurring on “Law and Order: SVU”. Lots of the other “Law and Order” shows as well. “Nurse Jackie,” “Magic City,” “Alias,” “Hack,” “Deadline,” “Cosby.”
Film: Paterno (HBO), Kissing Jessica Stein, The Night We Never Met, Jungle 2 Jungle, Borough of Kings.
Member: Actors Center, Naked Angels Theatre Company.
DIRECTING
Resident Artistic Director of George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ (LORT C), July 2015 - April 2017. Recent productions there include Daddy Long Legs (George Street), Nureyev’s Eyes (George Street/Delaware Theatre Company), Nora (Delaware Theatre Company), The Fabulous Lipitones and The Subject was Roses (both at George Street).
Associate Director, West Side Story National Tour.
Numerous celebrity benefit play readings for non-profit organizations with actors including: Edie Falco, Cynthia Nixon, John Slattery, Bernadette Peters, Zachary Quinto, Laura Benanti, Stockard Channing, Jean Smart, Melissa Leo, Beau Bridges, Michael McKean and Cecily Strong.