Michael Unger Biography ((?)-)

Married Janet Metz (an actress); children: Phoebe, Nathaniel.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor, director

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
Appeared as Dr. Charke, Campion, as Drake, Golden Boy, as Phillipo, The Rover, as Mel, Slam, and as Roday, The Three Sisters, all Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA; as Puck, AMidsummer Night's Dream, and as Argan, Imaginary Invalid, both Renaissance Repertory Company; as Amsel, Portage to San Christobal, andas a clown, Othello, both Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, OH; as Stanley, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Studio Theatre, New York City; as Eugene,Broadway Bound, Jupiter Theatre, FL; as Valere in a gorilla suit, The Miser, Immediate Theatre, Chicago, IL; as Iago, Othello, Chicago City Theatre; as the title role, Peer Gynt, Passage Theatre, Chicago, IL; as Sevek, The Survivor, American Jewish Repertory, Los Angeles;as Grumio, The Taming of the Shrew, The Complex, Los Angeles; and as the title role, Tartuffe, Dillingham Center.
Major Tours
Appeared as Epstein, Biloxi Blues, U.S. cities; as Eugene and Stanley, Broadway Bound, U.S. cities.
Stage Director
The Inconstant Lovers (also known as Changes of Heart), Barrington Stage Company, Consolati Performing Arts Center, Sheffield, MA, 1997
Retribution, Lamb's Theatre, New York City, 1998
A Christmas Carol, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ, 2000-2003
Triumph of Love, Weston Playhouse, Weston, VT, 2002
Kiss Me Kate (musical; reading), The Depot Theatre, Westport, NY,2004
The Mikado (opera), The Depot Theatre, 2004
(With others) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (musical), Barrington Stage Company, Consolati Performing Arts Center, 2004
Also director of Buried Child, Dancing at Lughnasa, and Love's Labour's Lost, all American Academy of Dramatic Arts; The Fiancees of Loche and The Game of Love and Chance, both Archlight Theatre; Leap B-4 You Look (musical revue), and Lost & Found, both American Musical and Dramatic Academy; The Blair Arch Project, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ; Christina Alberta's Father (reading), National Music Theatre Network; Cleavage and Smokes, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles; Cries from the Mammal House, Limelight Playhouse, Los Angeles; Crimes of the Heart, Blowing Rock Stage Company; Haven: The Musical (musical), Gindy Auditorium, Los Angeles; I'll Be Seeing You(musical), Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA; In Perpetuity throughout the Universe, The Julliard School, New York City; Les liaisons dangereuses, Sanford Meisner Theatre, Studio Dramatique, New York City; Meet Me inSt. Louis (musical), The MUNY; Noises Off, New Harmony Theatre, Evansville, IN; The Real McCoy (reading and workshop), New York University; School for Wives, Weston Playhouse; Steel Magnolias, OhioNorthern University, Freed Center for the Performing Arts, Ada, OH; Still, Generation Productions; The Taming of the Shrew, Complex Theatre;and White Rose, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA. Director of the workshop Kevorkian Cafe.
Stage Assistant Director
A Christmas Carol, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 1996-1997
Steel Pier (musical), Richard Rodgers Theatre, New York City, 1997
Assistant director of Buried Child, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City and Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL; A Clockwork Orange, Steppenwolf Theatre; Closer Than Ever, Cherry Lane Theatre; Eyes for Consuela, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City; King David, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City; and Romeo and Juliet, Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. Assistant director of the workshop The Night They RaidedMinksy's. Associate director of Take Flight.
Stage Work
Other
(With others) Producer, Whatnot (musical), Musical Theatre Works,c. 1989

Developer, The Mystery of the Dancing Princesses (musical; reading), National Alliance of Musical Theatre Festival, 2001
Developer, Caligula (musical; reading; also known as Caligula:An Ancient Glam Rock Epic), New York City Musical Theatre Festival, Zipper Theatre, New York City, 2004
Developer of the musicals Dillinger: The Musical (reading), New 42nd Street Studios, New York City; and Chaplin. Assistant to the producers for the workshop Arthur: The Musical (musical); dramaturg for The Mad Dancers, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, and McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ. Has worked on the readings Dance on the Rooftops, Summerof '42, and Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus, all York Theatre; Liberty Smith (musical), Lamb's Theatre, New York City; and Water from the Moon, Education Alliance Center, New York City. Also worked on the productions Behind the Limelight and Ug.
Film Appearances
Walter, Wolfpack, J.E.R. Productions, 1988
Tenth guard, Caged Fury, Columbia/TriStar, 1989
Stanley, Body Trouble (also known as Joker's Wild), Alpha Pictures, 1992
Reporter, Albino Alligator, Miramax, 1996
Appeared as Hal, Still Life.
Film Work
Production assistant, Pink Nights, 1985
Assistant, Albino Alligator, Miramax, 1996
Assistant, Ransom, Buena Vista, 1996
Grip, Jorge, 1998
Assistant director, But Enough about Me..., 2000
Television Appearances
Episodic
Appeared as Tim Boswell, Law & Order, NBC.
Television Editor
Series
ThunderCats (animated), syndicated, 1983 and 1985
The SilverHawks (animated), syndicated, 1986
Television Work
Other
Assistant, Truman (movie), HBO, 1995
Venue production associate, 2000 Olympic Games, NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC, 2000
Assistant director of episodes of Picket Fences, CBS.
WRITINGS
Music for Television
Specials
Nickelodeon Magazine's Big 10 Birthday Bash, 2003

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