MICHAEL LAURENCE is an actor and playwright.
His solo-show, Krapp, 39 enjoyed an acclaimed six month run Off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse, and was nominated for a 2009 Drama Desk Award (“Best Solo Performance.”) It had a UK premiere in November, 2010 at the Tristan Bates Theatre/London, followed by a run at Axis Ballymun Theatre/Dublin. The play was anthologized in Plays & Playwrights 2009, and was published as a stand-alone volume by Samuel French in late 2010.
Michael’s other acting credits include the Broadway revivals of Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio, and Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms, the New York premiere of Michael Hollinger’s Opus (Primary Stages), the Off-Broadway premieres of Diary of a Teenage Girl (New Georges/3LD) and The Half God of Rainfall (New York Theatre Workshop, also at American Repertory Theatre/WNY), the Off-Broadway revival of Two Rooms by Lee Blessing (Platform Group), and Starbuck in The Rainmaker (Arena Stage).
In 2009-10, he played the recurring role of Barry the Homeless Man on the FX series Damages.
Other Theater: Coal County, The Gospel According To Thomas Jefferson Charles Dickens And Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord, Hamlet in Bed, Poison, The Few, Good People, The Morini Strad, Horsedreams, The Crucible, Krapp 39, Desire Under the Elms, Opus, Diary of a Teenage Girl, Two Rooms, The Pavilion, Talk Radio, Rainmaker, Three Days of Rain, The Faculty Room, Humpty Dumpty, Things of Dry Hours, Wintertime, Book of Days, Lydie Breeze, Tooth of Crime, Inventing Van Gogh, Tape, The Winter’s Tale, Galaxy Burlesque, Edward II, Quick Bright Things, Poorfellas.
TV: FBI: Most Wanted, Law & Order, Evil, Dexter, Prodigal Son, Sycamore, Elementary, Person of Interest, The Heart She Holler, The Good Wife, Damages, Third Watch, Jonny Zero, FX, GhostStories, As the World Turns, What’s Not To Love? for SHOWTIME, The Blacklist, Law & Order: SVU, and Shades of Blue
Film: Crybaby Bridge, Ghost Writer, The Last Thing Mary Saw, Can You Ever Forgive Me, One For the Money, Man on a Ledge, Second Child, The Operator, Follow Me Outside, Escape Artists, Room314, Claire Dolan, Torte Blume, Standing In the Current, Love God, Bridget,The Minister’s Black Veil, Particles of Truth, Three Penny America.
Podcast: Top 40, Marvel Wastelanders: Old Man Star-Lord