034. Director: Michael Arden

Michael is an actor and two-time Tony-nominated director for his Broadway revivals of Spring Awakening and Once On This Island.

Additional directing credits include A Christmas Carol starring Jefferson Mayes at the Geffen, Maybe Happy Ending at The Alliance Theater, The Pride and Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis Anenberg, Joseph at Lincoln Center, The Connors on ABC, the upcoming film, the book of Ruth, starring Ruth Wilson, among others. Michael is also company member of The Forest of Arden, an immersive theater company—  premiering a new work, Alien/ Nation at Williamstown Theater Festival this summer. 

As an actor, Michaels Broadway credits include Big River, The Times They Are A’Changin, and King Lear. Additional theater credits include Bare A pop Opera off Broadway, Swimming in the Shallows at Second Stage, The Hunchback of Notre Dam at the La Jolla Playhouse and Papermill Playhouse, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love at the MErnier Choclate Factory in London among others. TV credits include Numbers, Grey's Anatomy, Bones, The Closer, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, Unforgettable, GCB, Royal Pains, every episode of Anger Management among many others. Michael is on Variety’s “Broadway Impact List” and has been awarded NAACP, Ovation, NAD, Outer Critic Circle, and Tony Honor Awards.