about the cast
Michelle Beck
Michelle is an actress, filmmaker, writer, and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
As an actress, she has worked on Broadway in the Tony-winning production of A Raisin in the Sun, and off-Broadway in Hurricane Diane (New York Theater Workshop); Richard III (Public Theater); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Public Theater); A Kid Like Jake (LCT3); Much Ado About Nothing (Theater for a New Audience); Measure for Measure (Epic Theatre Ensemble); Uncle Vanya (Pearl Theater); The Changeling (Red Bull Theater), among others.
She also performed in As You Like It and The Tempest as a company member of the transatlantic Bridge Project, directed by Sam Mendes (BAM, Old Vic, international tour).
For Play On!, she was in Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 and Much Ado about Nothing.
Regionally, she has performed in Winter’s Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Top Girls (ACT); The Wanderers (The Old Globe); Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Hamlet (Shakespeare Theatre); King Charles III (ACT, Seattle Rep, Shakespeare Theatre DC); Tartuffe (McCarter/ Yale Rep); Top Girls (ACT); The Wanderers (The Old Globe); Richard and Jane and Dick and Sally (Playwright’s Realm/Baltimore Center Stage); Proof (TheatreWorks Palo Alto - BATCC nomination).On screen, she has recurring roles on Marvel’s Luke Cage and Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost.
She can also be seen on Manifest; Homeland; Claws; and Madam Secretary.
Film credits include the award-winning sci-fi film Ovum; Ambition’s Debt; Sam & Julia; Death of a Prince; Spinning Into Butter.
Michelle recently wrote, directed, produced the short film THE SNAKES, where during a cold Brooklyn winter in a parallel future, a depressed Black woman, deals with the culture of fear and microaggressions that surround her by channeling her rage into violent fantasies.
The film premiered at the Pan African Film Festival and has recently been accepted into the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival.
Her play OTHER THAN OTHER has had developmental readings with Dorset Theater Festival.
She is a member of the Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artists Writing group (DTF WAW).
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