Michael Shulman
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Michael Shulman is an American
stage
, television
, film
actor
and co-owner of New York
and Los Angeles
-based production company Starry Night Entertainment.
Born in New York City, New York, Shulman has been acting since childhood where he began his career in theatre
and quickly appeared in more than 10 plays
and musicals, including a two year run on Broadway
in Les Misérables
, the original cast of Stephen Sondheim
's Assassins
, and two plays by John Guare
. He was a member of the cast of Recess
, and played the role of the Hustler Kid. It was during this time that he began his recording career and has since appeared in more than 5 albums. Shulman next turned to television and film and landed several roles, including Jodie Foster
’s Little Man Tate
, M. Night Shyamalan
’s Wide Awake, Disney's
Can of Worms
, Fox's Party of Five
(1994), and his critically acclaimed performance as Benny in the HBO special, Someone Had to Be Benny (1996) for which he was nominated for a CableAce Award (the youngest nominee in the Award’s history) and won a Daytime Emmy Award
.
Shulman recently received a Bachelor of Arts
degree from Yale University
with a major in the History of Art.
In 2006, Shulman teamed with Los Angeles-based Craig Saavedra
, who directed him in "Rhapsody In Bloom", to form Starry Night Entertainment.
In 2009, Shulman produced and starred in the comedy/drama "Sherman's Way
" opposite James LeGros
, Enrico Colantoni
, Brooke Nevin
, Lacey Chabert
and Donna Murphy
.
In 2009, Shulman returned to the stage as Alan in J.T. Roger's play "White People" at the Atlantic Theatre Company.
In 2009, Shulman appeared as Assistant District Attorney Maxwell Cavanaugh in NBC's "Law & Order
".
Shulman is an advocate for the arts and serves on the board of The New Wave, a division of The Film Society of Lincoln Center. He resides in New York and rescued a dog named Stevie from the ASPCA.
In 2010, Shulman associate produced the New York premiere of Craig Wright
's Mistakes Were Made Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre
. The comedy, directed by Dexter Bullard, starred Academy Award-nominated actor Michael Shannon
as Felix Artifex, a B-list Off-Broadway producer who gets in way over his fast-talking head when he takes on a gargantuan epic about the French Revolution which he thinks is going to be his ticket to professional and personal reclamation. While trying to land a big star for the lead role, he uses all his powers of persuasion, seduction and intimidation to strong-arm the writer into massively rewriting his play.
United States
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stage
Stage (theatre)
In theatre or performance arts, the stage is a designated space for the performance productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience...
, television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, film
Film
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actor
Actor
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and co-owner of New York
New York
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and Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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-based production company Starry Night Entertainment.
Born in New York City, New York, Shulman has been acting since childhood where he began his career in theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and quickly appeared in more than 10 plays
Play (theatre)
A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...
and musicals, including a two year run on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
in Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)
Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....
, the original cast of Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
's Assassins
Assassins (musical)
Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr. It uses the premise of a murderous carnival game to produce a revue-style portrayal of men and women who attempted to assassinate Presidents of the United States...
, and two plays by John Guare
John Guare
John Guare is an American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Landscape of the Body...
. He was a member of the cast of Recess
Recess
Recess is a general term for a period of time in which a group of people is temporarily dismissed from its duties. Inparliamentary procedure, a recess is initiated by a motion to recess...
, and played the role of the Hustler Kid. It was during this time that he began his recording career and has since appeared in more than 5 albums. Shulman next turned to television and film and landed several roles, including Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress....
’s Little Man Tate
Little Man Tate
Little Man Tate is a 1991 motion picture drama directed by and starring Jodie Foster.It tells the story of Fred Tate, a 7-year-old child prodigy who struggles to self-actualize in a social and psychological construct that largely fails to accommodate his intelligence...
, M. Night Shyamalan
M. Night Shyamalan
Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan,known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an Indian-born American screenwriter, film director, and producer known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that climax with a twist ending. He is also known for filming his movies in and around...
’s Wide Awake, Disney's
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
Can of Worms
Can Of Worms (film)
Can of Worms is a Halloween Disney Channel Original Movie. It was released in 1999, and is based on the novel of the same name, which was a Young Reader's Choice Nominee in 2002 and a nominee for the 2001 Rhode Island Children's Book Award. The film was shot in Vancouver, British...
, Fox's Party of Five
Party of Five
Party of Five is an American teen drama television series that aired on Fox for six seasons, from September 12, 1994, until May 3, 2000.Critically acclaimed, the show suffered from low ratings and after its first season was slated for cancellation...
(1994), and his critically acclaimed performance as Benny in the HBO special, Someone Had to Be Benny (1996) for which he was nominated for a CableAce Award (the youngest nominee in the Award’s history) and won a Daytime Emmy Award
Daytime Emmy Award
The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming...
.
Shulman recently received a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
degree from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
with a major in the History of Art.
In 2006, Shulman teamed with Los Angeles-based Craig Saavedra
Craig Saavedra
Craig Michael Saavedra is an American film producer, director, writer and co-owner of New York and Los Angeles-based production company Starry Night Entertainment.-Early life:...
, who directed him in "Rhapsody In Bloom", to form Starry Night Entertainment.
In 2009, Shulman produced and starred in the comedy/drama "Sherman's Way
Sherman's way
Sherman's Way is a comedy-drama independent film starring James LeGros, Enrico Colantoni, Lacey Chabert, Donna Murphy, Brooke Nevin, and Michael Shulman. The film was directed by Craig Saavedra, written by Thomas R. Nance, and produced by Starry Night Entertainment...
" opposite James LeGros
James LeGros
James LeGros is an American film and television actor. He is known as a star of independent films with a diversified body of work in the early to mid 1990s.-Personal life:...
, Enrico Colantoni
Enrico Colantoni
Enrico Colantoni is a Canadian actor, probably best known for portraying Elliot DiMauro in the sitcom Just Shoot Me!, Keith Mars on the television series Veronica Mars, and Sergeant Greg Parker on the television series Flashpoint. He has also had supporting roles in such films as The Wrong Guy, ...
, Brooke Nevin
Brooke Nevin
Brooke Candice Nevin is a Canadian actress, best known for portraying Rachel Berenson on the science fiction series Animorphs and currently starring as Julianne "Jules" Simms on Breakout Kings, as well as Sonja Lester on Call Me Fitz...
, Lacey Chabert
Lacey Chabert
Lacey Nicole Chabert is an American actress and voice actress, known for her roles as Claudia Salinger in the television drama Party of Five and as Gretchen Wieners in the movie Mean Girls...
and Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy is an American stage, film, television actress and singer.Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens...
.
In 2009, Shulman returned to the stage as Alan in J.T. Roger's play "White People" at the Atlantic Theatre Company.
In 2009, Shulman appeared as Assistant District Attorney Maxwell Cavanaugh in NBC's "Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
".
Shulman is an advocate for the arts and serves on the board of The New Wave, a division of The Film Society of Lincoln Center. He resides in New York and rescued a dog named Stevie from the ASPCA.
In 2010, Shulman associate produced the New York premiere of Craig Wright
Craig Wright
Craig Wright is the name of:*Craig Wright , American playwright, television writer, and producer*Craig Wright , Scottish cricketer*Craig R. Wright, American baseball writer and proponent of sabermetrics...
's Mistakes Were Made Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre
Barrow Street Theatre
Barrow Street Theatre is an Off Broadway theatre venue located in New York City's historic Greenwich House. Previously home to Drama Dept. the space was leased to Barrow Street Theatre in 2003 and has been home to long-running Off-Broadway hits, Bug by Tracy Letts and Orson's Shadow by Austin...
. The comedy, directed by Dexter Bullard, starred Academy Award-nominated actor Michael Shannon
Michael Shannon (actor)
Michael Corbett Shannon is an American stage, film, and television actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Revolutionary Road...
as Felix Artifex, a B-list Off-Broadway producer who gets in way over his fast-talking head when he takes on a gargantuan epic about the French Revolution which he thinks is going to be his ticket to professional and personal reclamation. While trying to land a big star for the lead role, he uses all his powers of persuasion, seduction and intimidation to strong-arm the writer into massively rewriting his play.