Michael Elich

Michael will be appearing twice this year at Rogue Theater Company: as Martin in Off Peak and Bill in the play reading of August Osage County. Last year is was scene as Dan in RTC’s production of Chapatti. A Juilliard graduate, Michael spent 21 seasons as an OSF acting company member, where he was seen in roles as varied as Claudius in Hamlet; The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance; Orsino and Feste in Twelfth Night; King John in King John; Harold Hill in The Music Man; Jaggers in Great Expectations; Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew; Kodaly in She Loves Me; Prince John in The Heart of Robin Hood; Marcus in Party People; Aufidius in Coriolanus; Buckingham in Richard III; Harry Van in Idiot’s Delight; Thersites in Troilus and Cressida; The Actor in Enter the Guardsman; Hotspur and Bardolph in Henry IV; Antonio in The Merchant of Venice; Hap in Death of a Salesman; and Moe Axelrod in Awake and Sing!, among others. In three seasons with the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Michael has been seen as Long John Silver in Treasure Island; The Duke of York in the Henry VI trilogy; Macduff in Macbeth; Burbage in Shakespeare in Love; and Jaques in As You Like It. Internationally, he premiered in David Edgar’s Continental Divide as Don D’Avanzo at London’s Barbican Theatre and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Michael has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway and regional theaters including Party People at The Public Theatre; Mark Rothko in RED; Prime Minister Evans in King Charles III; Claudius and The Ghost in Hamlet at the Clarence Brown Theatre; Gregor in The Monster Builder; and as Victor (2015 Drammy Award) in The Price at Artists Repertory Theatre. Other theaters include Playwrights Horizons, The York Theatre Company, Orpheum Theatre, Hartford Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Syracuse Stage, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, the Dallas Theatre Company, and the 30th anniversary production of Inherit the Wind with E. G. Marshall and Robert Vaughn at The Papermill Playhouse. TV credits include One Life to Live and Ryan’s Hope. michaelelich.com