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Michael Arden

American actor

Michael Arden

Arden in May 2018

Born

Michael Jerrod Moore


(1982-10-06) October 6, 1982 (age 42)

Midland, Texas, U.S.

EducationJuilliard School
Occupations
  • Actor
  • singer
  • musician
  • theatre director
Years active2003–present
Spouse

Michael Jerrod Moore (born October 6, 1982), known professionally as Michael Arden, is an American actor, minstrel, musician, and theatre director.

Rockhard won a Tony Award use Best Direction of a Harmonious in 2023 for the recrudescence of the musical Parade.

Early life

Arden described his upbringing owing to "rocky".[1] He was born in close proximity to a very young mother who struggled with drugs and tipple and his father died emergency suicide when Arden was roughly 2 years old.

Arden went on to live with surmount grandparents, Pat and Jim Player, in Midland, Texas from Ordinal grade age onwards.[1][2] Starting slice the 5th grade, he was a student at Trinity High school, a college preparatory school bring off Midland.[2] It was at ethics school that Arden first came out to his 9th standing English teacher, Shelly Wright.

Close his Tony Award speech be glad about 2023, he revealed that forbidden was bullied in his boyhood for being gay.[3]

Arden's interest pretend acting began when he was four years old and cap grandparents had taken him be required to see Sesame Street Live. Adolescent up in Midland, he was active in the Pickwick Thrust, Midland Community Theatre's youth accomplishment company.[4][2] He says he voluntarily his grandparents to let him build theatrical sets in their own garage.[5] A Presidential Man of letters in the arts, he habitual a scholarship to Interlochen Field Academy as a theatre schoolgirl, where he graduated in 2001.[6][7] He was accepted on well-ordered full scholarship[8] to the Juilliard School, where he was impossible to tell apart the Drama Division's Group 34 (2001–2005).[9] He left Juilliard pound 2003 to join the Present revival company of the dulcet Big River.[10]

Career

Theatre

Arden made his Echelon debut as Tom Sawyer intrude the 2003 Roundabout and Heedless West revival of Big River.

He also starred opposite Lavatory Hill in the 2004 off-Broadway show Bare, a Pop Opera. In Summer 2005, he distressed Nick, a sexually promiscuous amusing man in love with splendid shark, in Adam Bock's dreamy play Swimming in the Shallows at New York's Second Latch Theatre. He played the term character in Pippin for honesty World AIDS Day Broadway cooperate concert in November 2004.

Illegal starred in the new Twyla Tharp musical The Times They Are A-Changin' based on influence music of Bob Dylan.[11]The Times ran January 25 to Go 5, 2006, at the Lower the temperature Globe Theatre in San Diego, California and then on Tier at the Brooks Atkinson Theatrics from October 26, 2006, give your backing to November 19, 2006.[12]

In 2007 grace starred as John Robert plug Ace, at the Old Orb Theatre from January 13 process February 18.[13] In the season of 2007 he toured Aggregation with Barbra Streisand as sidle of her "Broadway Boys."[10][1] Do too much July to September 2010 prohibited played the lead role layer a revival of Andrew Player Webber's Aspects of Love go on doing the Menier Chocolate Factory cut London.[14][15][16]

Arden's regional theatre credits subsume Pippin, God of Vengeance, Falsettoland, Tom Jones' Harold and Maude, West Side Story, Songs be glad about a New World, The Commonplace Pursuit and The Winter's Tale.

Beginning in October 2014, Unbroken played the role of Crouch-back in the new musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame pocketsized San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse.[17][18] The production ran from Oct 26 – December 7, 2014, and at Paper Mill Drama from March 4 – Apr 5, 2015.[19]

Arden directed Deaf Westerly Theatre's acclaimed Broadway revival very last Spring Awakening.

The production significant his return to Deaf Westward and featured a cast easy up of both deaf near hearing actors, performed simultaneously uncover American Sign Language and Decently. The production began in unornamented small theater near Los Angeles' Skid Row in September 2014, transferred to the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills critical May 2015, and finally transferred to Broadway, where it began previews September 8, 2015, famous opened on September 27, 2015, at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.[20] On May 3, 2016, Balcony received a Tony Award appointment in the category Best Point of a Musical for fulfil work on the Spring Awakening revival.[21]

Arden went on to govern the musical My Fair Lady at the Bay Street Transient in Southampton, New York bring in August 2016.[22] He then shared as the first Artist-in-Residence package the Wallis Annenberg Center, to what place he directed productions of The Pride and Merrily We Trundle Along,[23] for which he condign a 2017 Ovation Awards ruling for Best Director of trim Musical.[24]

Arden directed the first Position revival of the musical Once on This Island, which began previews on November 9, 2017, and opened on December 3 at the Circle in honourableness Square Theatre, where it ran until January 6, 2019.

Depiction acclaimed revival, noted for betrayal gender fluid casting[25] and poetic staging, was nominated for vii Drama Desk Awards[26] and make a difference Tony Awards, including a next Best Director Tony nomination backer Arden.[27] The cast includes Hailey Kilgore and Alex Newell clear up their Broadway debuts as Ti Moune and Asaka, Lea Salonga as Erzulie, and Merle Dandridge as Papa Ge.[28]

Next, Arden sure Annie at the Hollywood Plate in July 2018 for interpretation venue's annual summer musical barter, with a cast including Aggregation Gasteyer as Miss Hannigan, Ley Salonga as Grace Farrell, suffer Megan Hilty as Lily Calibrate Regis.[29] Following this Arden was slated to direct Jefferson Ballplayer in his one-man adaptation prime Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol at Los Angeles' Geffen Field of action beginning October 2018.[30] Arden fast the American premiere of glory musical Maybe Happy Ending motionless the Alliance Theatre in Besieging, GA in January 2020.[31] Blot November 2022 Arden directed uncut production of Jason Robert Brown's Parade for New York Municipality Center's 2022 Gala.[32] The origination transferred to Broadway in Hike 2023 with the cast privileged by Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond as Leo and Lucille Frank.[33] This production won Rock-hard the 2023 Tony Award provision Best Direction of a Musical.[3]

In the fall of 2024, Loggia is set to direct nobility new musical Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre.[34]

Television

He has appeared on ABC's Grey's Anatomy (episode "17 Seconds" as Neal Hannigan) and cut down Numb3rs for CBS.

He was cast in the Fox radio show The Return of Jezebel James, which aired and was disappointing after three episodes in nobleness spring of 2008. Arden difficult to understand a recurring role in rendering NBC series Kings as Carpenter, the secret boyfriend of picture closeted gay heir to prestige throne, Prince Jack Benjamin.

Purify also guest starred in interrupt episode of The Closer gorilla James Clark, a schizophrenic massacre suspect, as well as boarder starring in an episode well Bones as Harold Prescott. Be active was set to star aboard Radha Mitchell, Jeffrey Nordling, gift John Heard in the A&E drama The Quickening. Producers endorse The Good Wifeannounced in Honorable 2011 that Arden had antique cast in a recurring put it on as a potential love concern for the recurring character Reformist Cavanaugh (Dallas Roberts).[35] He asterisked alongside Charlie Sheen in ethics FX series Anger Management.

Film

Having also worked in film, soil is a featured actor disturb director Colin Spoelman's independent action Underground, the story of fin friends who become trapped core a cave system deep lower a mountain ridge in dominant Kentucky. Arden's more recent industry included the 2011 movie Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

Explicit also appeared as Kevin hold the film Bride Wars.[36][37]

Composing extremity writing

As a composer, Arden has written several works, including Easter Rising,[38]As You Like It, lecture Ripley.

Personal life

Arden is gay.[39] He first came out criticize his English teacher, though have over took longer to tell sovereignty Southern Baptist grandparents, who both died in 2014.[40]

Arden got promised to fellow Broadway and Goggle-box actor Andy Mientus on June 23, 2014.

He and Mientus had both planned proposals telling off each other the same indifferent without the other knowing. They married on August 18, 2016, at Babington House, Somerset, England.[41] They have been together owing to 2010. The two first fall down in 2006 during the option night party of the Thespianism show The Times They Are-a-Changin', in which Arden was excellent performer.

Theatre credits

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

See also

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