Biography
Michael is an actor, writer, director, voice over actor, and coach with an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
Michael is a 2023 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.
In Los Angeles Michael has worked at many theatres including, the Pasadena Playhouse in Sunday in the Park with George and The Father with Alfred Molina (La Drama Critics Award for Best Ensemble), at A Noise Within, playing Tilden in Buried Child, The Creature in Frankenstein (LA Drama Critics Circle Lead Performance, Ovation Award nomination for Best Lead Actor, Stage Scene LA Performance of the Year, LA Theatre Bites Best Actor), and Iago in Othello (Robby Lead Actor) Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Geffen, Shakespeare Festival Los Angeles (6 Seasons), Parson's Nose, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Hispanic Playwrights Project (7 seasons), Pacific Playwrights Project, Main Street Theatre (6 Seasons), Cornerstone, Playwright's Arena, and Interact Theatre Company (company member). Regionally Michael has worked at The Alley Theatre, Yale Rep, Berkley Rep, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre DC, the Group Theatre, Empty Space, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Theatre for a New Audience, and the long running improvised sketch show The Underground Soap at the Cucaracha Theatre in New York, among others.
As a director and coach Michael has served as Creative Consultant to John Legend for his show An Evening of Songs and Stories. He has also worked as an on-set coach for Chris Bauer in the Feature film Doug Out.
He has appeared in numerous films and tv shows, including National Treasure, Volcano, Dragonfly, NCIS: Los Angeles, Wonderland among others. Michael has narrated several documentaries for PBS including Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle (Ruben), The Millionaires Unit and The Lafayette Escadrille, among others.
Michael has narrated a number of Books including Autumn of the Patriarch, The General in His Labyrinth, The Mind of Plants, Inside the Collapse of Venezuela and was nominated for an Audie for A Snowstorm In April.
As a voiceover actor he has dubbed over 30 TV series and Feature films including Argentina 1985 (Academy Award Nominated for International Feature Film), Society of the Snow, Luis Miguel and Ferry the Series, among others. He also voiced the character Aldova Cardova in the Video game Dishonored: Death of the Outsider.
Michael was an adjunct professor at California Lutheran University, and has taught seminars in Commedia and Shakespeare at The Gooden School, Harvard-Westlake, Westridge, Flintridge Prep and schools throughout LAUSD. He is especially proud of his work with the A.S.K Playwrights in the Schools program and About Theatre's Young Theatreworks program with at risk students in Compton, Watts, Pacoima and East LA.
