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Other news:
Mike in Pinocchio’s Ashes, 4/13–4/29.
Mike at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Summer 2012.

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Other news:
Mike in Pinocchio’s Ashes, 4/13–4/29.
National MS Society Walk, 4/29. 

I play an inspired revolutionary! Or a serial killer. Hmm.

“Strong…” an actor “we’d like to see more of.” —Backstage

“I love the smell of burning classics in the morning,” declares Judge Wolff in the first line of Jokum Rohde’s philosophical thriller Pinocchio’s Ashes. The Danish playwright’s award-winning work is an expressionistic noir drama about the role of art in our times and the demonic streak in human nature. The play tells a gripping story filled with melancholy, poetry and dark humor. Set In the city of Kongstad, where a national ban has been imposed on art and culture, a crime wave has begun and revolution is in the air, something is about to happen….

Performance Dates:
4/13-15 (previews) 4/16 – 4/29
Monday: 7:30pm
Tuesday: Dark
Wednesday: 7:30pm
Thursday: 7:30pm
Friday: 7:30pm
Saturday: 7:30pm
Sunday: 3:00pm

Theater for the New City
155 1st Avenue, NYC

Tickets are available here or by calling 1-800-838-3006

It’ll go up at the Abingdon Theatre‘s black box:
The Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex
312 W 36th Street (btw 8th and 9th Aves)
New York, NY 10018

For more details, or to RSVP, visit the Facebook page. You can buy tickets via Smarttix. Do so before Oct. 31, & the code EARLYB will get you a whopping $3 off.

November 3–20
Thursday — 8p
Friday — 8p
Saturday — 2p, 8p
Sunday — 2p

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FRIDAY cancelled due to storms

Present your ticket on Sat or Sunday, and email michael.gend at gmail dot com for reschedule or refund.

Live band. Cash bar. Manhattan skyline.

Limited seating. Only three performances.

RSVP on Facebook

Tickets available from Brown Paper tickets.

TWELFTH NIGHT
Shakespeare on the Roof

Three performances only!
JULY 29, 30 & 31
8:00PM Show begins
7:30PM Cash-bar and rooftop open
OfficeOps: 57 Thames St, Brooklyn NY 11237 (MORGAN stop on the L)
$10 tickets
available from Brown Paper tickets.

Shakespeare’s story of mistaken identity and lust as told by a rogue group of performers, musicians, and other vagabonds atop the roof. Featuring a live band, cash-bar with beer and wine, and an unbelievable view of the Manhattan skyline, this promises to be a night you won’t soon forget.

Directed and Adapted by Lily Whitsitt
With original music by Chris-Gerard
Produced by Rebecca Dealy & Claire Needham with Michael Gend
Sponsored by The Private Theatre

Scenic Design by Amy Rubin
Costume Design by Kerry Gibbons
Lighting Design by Porsche McGovern
Production Manager: Sarah E. Peterson
Stage Managers: Renee Marie Heffel & Raychel A. Wagner

Featuring the talents of:
Kyle Morfe Bretz, Platt Cassingham, Louiza Collins, Rebecca Dealy, Chris-Gerard, Kyle Hester, Bennett James, Mike James, Julen Larrinaga, Justin Montalvo, Donnie Panicko, Claire Needham, and Brandon Sherman.

In late July, I’ll be playing Sebastian in Twelfth Night, directed by Lily Whitsitt, recent CALArts MFA directing grad.

3 Women
Adapted and Directed by Anna Brenner (MFA Directing Candidate, 2011)
World Premiere

March 30—April 2, 2011
Wednesday—Friday at 8pm and Saturday at 2pm & 8pm

Inspired by Robert Altman’s 1977 film, 3 WOMEN is a dreamlike investigation of personality and identity through the perspective of three women in a dusty California town. This atmospheric, character-driven piece combines video, sound, and movement to create an uncanny world, invoking both humor and terror, to tell the story of lost souls in the process of reinvention.

I’m playing a handful of dudes.

Buy tickets here.

Based on the legendary New York court trial of Ruth Snyder in 1927, Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 Expressionist play uncovers the life of a woman who must choose between fulfilling the world’s mechanized expectations and abandoning convention in order to live freely, whatever the costs. Now in 2011, this imaginative production uses aerial choreography and live music with an ensemble cast to illustrate with stunning theatricality the tension between social suffocation and independent breath.

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGEMENT Amy Steinman
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGEMENT Brittney Reimert and Ellen Mezzera
SCENIC Deb O
LIGHTING Carl Wiemann
SOUND/MUSIC Daniel Kluger
COSTUME Bryen Shannon
AERIAL CHOREOGRAPHY Sy Parrish
GENERAL MANAGEMENT Alona Fogel
DRAMATURGY Emily Madison
FILM TEAM Kim Madalinski and Zach Carver
GRAPHIC DESIGN Nik Perleros

FEATURING
Mary Archias
Gabriel Baron
Tom Cleary*
Mike James
Adam Lebowitz-Lockard
Lamar Lewis
Joel Ripka*
Clea Rivera*
Shelley Virginia*

* Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

March 9-11, 8 p.m.
March 12, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Talk Forward event on Friday, March 11 at 6:30pm

The Riverside Theatre
91 Claremont Avenue
(btw 120th and 122nd Sts.)
New York City<
$15 general admission; $5 seniors; FREE with any valid student ID

For TICKETS and MORE INFORMATION visit
www.ColumbiaStages.org

Duct Tape Twins
a short film directed by Sarah Nerboso

Saturday, October 30
Program 2
11:00am – 12:45pm

Miller Theater, 2960 Broadway (at 116th St.)

A showing of 8-12 minute films from second year Columbia film MFA students.

I’m speaking on Wednesday at Wesleyan University in PAC 001, with Katherine D’Ambrosio, at 4:15pm, about the joys of being a history major. I’ll be talking to undergrads. Bring popcorn!