Biography: Michael is an actor, singer, and musician based in the city of Chicago. An alumni from Columbia College Chicago, Michael is a multifaceted performer who thrives mainly on collaboration and ensemble work throughout the city's vast surplus of storefront theater. He is a multi-instrumentalist and singer who can bring subtlety to dramatic roles and a fiery optimistic energy to comedies. Alongside numerous film and television roles such as Josh in Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino, Michael has worked in theaters across the United States during his nation wide tour of Once the Musical, The Play The Goes Wrong, and Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale as Samwise Gamgee