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Michael Gene Sullivan is an actor, writer, director, political blogger based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also a Collective Member and Resident Director of the Tony and OBIE award-winning, always revolutionary, and never, ever silent San Francisco Mime Troupe. For ten years he was also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, one of the foremost political sites on the internet, has spoken politically at events throughout the Bay Area, at presented the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Sullivan has been a guest lecturer on artistic activism at Yale University, and has lectured on playwriting and play creation at the American Conservatory Theatre, Stanford University, The National Theatre Conservatory, Trinity College, Dartmouth College, University of Southern California, University of California at Humboldt, New Colleges of San Francisco and Santa Rosa, and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.

Sullivan's awards include The San Francisco Chronicle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting, The Bay Guardian's Upstage/Downstage Award and San Francisco Bay Area Drama Critic Circle Solo Performance Award nomination for DID ANYONE EVER TELL YOU, …YOU LOOK LIKE HUEY P. NEWTON? And  The Dean Goodman Choice Award for Principal Performer, and the Israel Baran Award for his all-woman political farce RECIPE. Michael is a two-time Theatre Bay Area CA$H Grant award winner, was awarded the Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Award for Best Direction for I AM A MAN at the Harbor Theatre, and his re-staging of SFMT's I AIN'T YO UNCLE won several Dramalogue Awards, including Outstanding Direction. In 2015 Michael was given Stanford University's Equity Award for using his work to help achieve racial, gender, and age balance on stage, and in 2016 he was honored by Theatre Bay Area as one  of "40 stellar theatre artists, supporters and champions that have changed the face of Bay Area theatre." Sullivan and his wife, actor/director Velina Brown were profiled in the February 2017 edition of American Theatre Magazine.

As an actor:

Sullivan has performed at the Bay Area's four Tony award-winning regional theaters: The American Conservatory Theater,  The San Francisco Mime Troupe, Theatreworks, and  Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He has also performed at the California Shakespeare Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, San Francisco Playhouse, The Magic Theatre, The Marin Theatre Company, Symmetry Theatre, Central Works, Word For Word,  The Lorraine Hansberry Theater, African-American Shakespeare Company, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, as well performances off-Broadway, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Asian People's Theater Festival (Hong Kong), The Festival of People's Theatre (Canada), the Kwachon International Outdoor Theatre Festival (Korea), the Israel Theatre Festival, and the International Festival of Theatre Action (Belgium). Since 1988 he has also been a principal member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he has acted in, directed, and/or directed over thirty productions in the US and abroad.

As a playwright:

1984, Sullivan’s critically-acclaimed stage adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel, opened at Los Angeles' Actors' Gang Theatre under the direction of Academy Award winning actor Tim Robbins. 1984 has had repeated extended runs in LA, toured to Australia, Europe, Asia, Central and South America, and 40 of the United States. 1984 has been published in the United States, Canada, and Spain, is available in six languages, and most recently was produced at the Alley Theatre under the direction of Artistic Director Rob Melrose (which Wall Street Journal theatre critic Terry Teachout picked as one of the best productions of the year,) was toured throughout the United States by New York’s Aquila Theatre, and opened at the Theatre on Podol, the newly designated National Theater of Ukraine in Kiev.

He is the Resident Playwright for the San Francisco Mime Troupe, an alumnus Resident Playwright with San Francisco's nationally-acclaimed Playwright's Foundation, and was awarded a 2017 Artist Fellowship from the Djerassi Arts Center.

Plays (Selected works)

The Great Khan (2021) San Francisco Playhouse, San Diego REPertory Theatre

Tales of the Resistance Volume 2: Persistence (2021) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Scripts by Michael Gene Sullivan, Ellen Callas, Marie Cartier. Music and lyrics by Daniel Savio.

A Red Carol (2020) San Francisco Mime Troupe Adapted for the radio from “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens

1984 (2006)

War of the Worlds (2020) Adapted for online production from the novel by H.G. Wells and the radio play by Orson Welles

Tales of the Resistance (2020) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Scripts by Michael Gene Sullivan, Ellen Callas, Marie Cartier Music by Daniel Savio, Lyrics by Daniel Savio and Marie Cartier

Treasure Island (2019) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan, Ellen Callas, Marie Cartier Music by Michael Bello, Lyrics by Daniel Savio

Walls - Ningún Humano Es Ilegal (2017) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan Music by Michael Bello, Lyrics by Piero Infante Schooled (2016) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan, Eugenie Chan Music and Lyrics by Ira Marlowe

Freedomland (2015) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan Music and Lyric by Ira Marlowe

Recipe (2014) CentralWorks, Berkeley, CA Winner, Israel Baran Award.

Ripple Effect (2014) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan, Eugenie Chan, Tanya Shaffer, Music and Lyrics by Ira Marlowe

For The Greater Good (2012) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan. Music and Lyrics by Pat Moran, Bruce Barthol 2012: The Musical! (2011) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan. Music and Lyrics by Pat Moran Posibilidad, or Death of the Worker (2010) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan, Music and Lyrics by Pat Moran

Too Big To Fail (2009) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan. Music and Lyrics by Pat Moran

Red State (2008) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan. Music and Lyrics by Pat Moran

Making a Killing (2007) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan, Jon Brooks. Music and Lyrics by Pat Moran, Velina Brown

Godfellas (2006) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan, with Jon Brooks, Eugenie Chan, Christian Cagigal, Music and Lyrics by Bruce Barthol, Pat Moran

Showdown at Crawford Gulch (2007) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan, Music and Lyrics by Amos Glick, Ira Marlowe

Veronique of the Mounties (2003) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan, Bruce Barthol, Music by Jason Sherbundy, lyrics by Bruce Barthol

Mr. Smith Goes to Obscuristan (2002) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Josh Kornbluth, Michael Gene Sullivan, Music and Lyrics by Pat Moran

1600 Transylvania Avenue (2001) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan, Music by Jason Sherbundy, lyrics by Bruce Barthol

Did Anyone Ever Tell You -You Look Like Huey P. Newton? (2000) New York and Vancouver Fringe Festivals, Eureka Theatre, San Francisco) Script by Michael Gene Sullivan Eating it (2000) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan, Bruce Barthol, Ellen Callas, Music by Jason Sherbundy and Bruce Barthol. Lyrics by Bruce Barthol

Soul Suckers From Outer Space (1996) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Contributing Writer with: Joan Holden, Kate Chumley, Nina Siegal, Ellen Callas Music by Bruce Barthol, Eric Crystal, Liberty Ellman & E.W. Wainwright Lyrics by Bruce Barthol

Escape to Cyberia (1994) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Script by Michael Gene Sullivan, Greg Tate, Ellen Callas, Music and lyrics by Bruce Barthol

Offshore (1993) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Contributing Writer with: Joan Holden, Chung Chioa, Patrick Lee, Keiko Shimosato Music by Elliot Humberto Kavee, Dred Scott, Francis Wong & Bruce Barthol Lyrics by Bruce Barthol & Elliot Humberto Kavee

Social Work (1992) San Francisco Mime Troupe. Contributing Writer with: Joan Holden, Gregory R. Tate, Tanya Shaffer, Elliot Humberto Kavee Music by Bruce Barthol & Elliot Humberto Kavee Lyrics by Bruce Barthol

As a director (Selected works)

FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE:

A Red Carol Tales of the Resistance 1 & 2 (co-directed) ''Schooled For The Greater Good Red State Veronique of the Mounties 1600 Transylvania Avenue Coast With Confidential Killing Time Making a Killing'' (Co-Directed) Mr. Smith Goes To Obscuristan (Co-directed

FOR THEATRE FIRST: The Last Sermon of Sister Imani

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: ''Julius Caesar Colored Museum''

FOR MYSTIC BISON THEATRE: Death and the Maiden

FOR CIRCUS FINELLI: ''Frau Backfeifengesicht’s Specticle of Perfection The Slapstick Slavic Cabaret''

Sullivan was also co-Artistic Director of the Street of Dreams Theater ('80 - ’86), and Associate Artistic Director of the Lorraine Hansberry Theater ('93 -’94