Michael has been working in San Diego theatre since 2016 after relocating from New York City. He is a co-founder of Chalk Circle Collective, whose debut, The Turn of the Screw, played last October. Michael was last at Cygnet in The Last 5 Years and is thrilled to finally return to the Old Town stage! Select acting credits: Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse); The Tale of Despereaux (Old Globe); On the Twentieth Century, The Rocky Horror Show (Cygnet Theatre); Once, Million Dollar Quartet, Big Fish, Baskerville (Lamb’s Players); Metamorphoses (Santa Barbara ETC); The Cherry Orchard (North Coast Rep); Don’t Dress for Dinner (International City Theatre); and the West Coast premieres of Desperate Measures (North Coast Rep) and Homos, or Everyone in America (Diversionary). Michael received a Craig Noel Award for Actor of the Year for his body of work in 2019. Education: B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon. Instagram @koozimano