Michael Potts Biography ((?)-)
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Actor
Famous Works
- CREDITS
- Stage Appearances
- Brazil, The America Play, New York Shakespeare Festival, MartinsonHall, Public Theatre, New York City, 1994
- Gratiano, Overtime, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, New York City, 1996
- David Bradley, Mud, River, Stone, Playwrights' Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1997
- Sir Lucius O'Trigger, The Rivals, Adams Memorial Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA, 1998
- Julius Snaith, A Cup of Coffee, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven,CT, 1999
- Nicola, Arms and the Man, Roundabout Theatre Company, Gramercy Theatre, New York City, 2000
- Ray and doctor, Joe Fearless (A Fan Dance), New York Performance Works, Atlantic Theatre, New York City, 2000
- Brooklyn Bridge (staged reading), National Arts Club, New York City, 2000
- Benvolio, Romeo and Juliet, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 2001
- Revivalist minister, Salome (staged reading), Falconworks ArtistsGroup, New York City, 2001
- Rudy, Once around the City (musical), Second Stage Theatre, New York City, 2001
- Feste, Twelfth Night, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 2002
- "Golden Boy," Encores!, City Center Theatre, New York City, 2002
- "Haiti," Brave New World: American Theatre Responds to 9/11, TownHall Theatre, New York City, 2002
- Counselor to the king, The Persians, National Actors Theatre, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, New York City, 2003
- Member of ensemble, Highway Ulysses, American Repertory Theatre Company, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA, 2003
- Appeared in Jocasta, Voice and Vision Company, New York City; appeared in New York City productions of The 52nd Street Project, Playboy of the West Indies, and Rent; appeared in regional productionsof The Hostage, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello, and Randy Newman's Faust; also appeared in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World and St. Joan of the Stockyards.
- Film Appearances
- Bill, Halloween Night (also known as The Damning, DeathMask, and Hack-o-Lantern), Atlantic Video, 1990
- Tow truck driver, Hackers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1995
- First DOE technician, The Peacemaker, DreamWorks, 1997
- Justice guard, Conspiracy Theory, Warner Bros., 1997
- Black People Hate Me and They Hate My Glasses (short film), 2000
- Also appeared in George: A True Story and Stonewall.
- Television Appearances
- Episodic
- Mel, "Yes, We Have NO Cannolis," NYPD Blue, ABC, 1996
- Reggie Dobbs, "Entrapment," Law & Order, NBC, 1997
- Detective Jackson, "No Secrets," Trinity, NBC, 1998
- Floyd, "The Wedding," Cosby, CBS, 1999
- Reinhardt, "Medium Rare," Oz, HBO, 2001
- Brother Mouzone, The Wire, HBO, 2003
- Also appeared in As the World Turns, CBS; Comic Strip Live,Fox; One Life to Live, ABC; and Queens Supreme, CBS.
- Other
- Voice, The West (miniseries), PBS, 1996
- Voice of Isaac, Thomas Jefferson (special), PBS, 1997