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Michael Elich*

Mr. Kodaly in She Loves Me, Feste in Twelfth Night, Black Swan Lab

In 15 seasons at OSF: 47 roles in 36 productions including Harold Hill in The Music Man; Buckingham in Henry VIII and Richard III; Aufidius in Coriolanus; Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew; King John in King John; Harry Van in Idiot's Delight; Antonio in The Merchant of Venice; Orsino in Twelfth Night; The Actor in Enter the Guardsman; Hotspur and Bardolph in Henry IV, Parts One and Two; The Conferencier in Cabaret Verboten; Torvald in Nora; Poseidon in The Trojan Women; Charles in The School for Scandal; Hap in Death of a Salesman; Moe Axelrod in Awake and Sing!.

Off-Broadway: Company (York Theatre); Jack the Ripper Revue (Orpheum); Romance Language (Playwrights Horizons); Hedda Gabler (ATA). Regional: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Capital Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Syracuse Stage, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Portland Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

International: Don D'Avanzo in the American and United Kingdom premiere of Continental Divide (Birmingham Repertory Theatre, England and The Barbican, London.)

Film/TV: One Life to Live, Ryans Hope, Earthbound, Raspberry Heaven.

Education: The Juilliard School.

In memory of Peter Thomas

* member of Actors' Equity Association

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our company members

Full time: 325
Part time: 175
Average length of service: 8 years
Volunteers: 600

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