Michael Rupert
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| Born | Michael John Ruppert 23 October 1951 |
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Michael Rupert was born October 23, 1951 and is a Tony Award-winning American actor, singer, director and composer.
[edit] Theatrical career
Michael won both a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for his work in the 1986 Bob Fosse directed revival of Sweet Charity. He created the role of Marvin in March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. Other Broadway appearances include The Happy Time, Pippin, City of Angels, Ragtime and Legally Blonde: The Musical.
He has made his debut as a composer with 3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down (Drama Desk nomination), Strange Vacation and Streets of America, which made it's debut at Point Park University in Fall 2007. He wrote the score and starred in the musical Mail at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Kennedy Center, and on Broadway.
Rupert made his Off-Broadway directing debut with The Lunch Anxieties. He also directed the musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story. Off-Off-Broadway he directed City for The Filling Station and two one-acts for The Threshold Theatre Company's Caught In The Act at HERE. He directed The Crucible at Point Park University in 1997 and the musical Ragtime at Point Park University in the Fall of 2006.
Off-Broadway he has performed in: Elegies: A Song Cycle, Putting It Together, Falsettoland, March of the Falsettos, Ancient History, Festival, and Fragile: Handle With Care. Mr. Rupert's regional credits include: Splitting Infinity (Geva Theatre), Charles Strouse's Real Men (Coconut Grove Playhouse), Baby (20th Anniversay Cast at Paper Mill Playhouse), Life (x) 3, Adrift In Macao (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Breaking and Entering, Merchant of Venice, In the Blue Room, Avow, Relativity, Brecht: Sacred and Profane, and Play With Fire.
Recent workshops/readings include Terrence McNally's new play Some Men and a new musical by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak entitled Campaign Of The Century.
On television he has had roles in: Law & Order, New York Undercover, All My Children, Big Brother Jake, Cheers, Outrage (Movie of the Week), No Place to Hide (Movie of the Week), Short Walk to Daylight (Movie of the Week), Alice, The Walton's, and One Life to Live.
He currently is working with producer and engineer David Timmons on a solo release.
| Preceded by Ron Richardson for Big River |
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical 1986 for Sweet Charity |
Succeeded by Michael Maguire for Les Misérables |
[edit] Personal life
He lives with his partner, Will Chafin in New York City.
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He graduated from San Marino High School [San Marino, California; near Pasadena] in 1969 after transferring in as a senior. His senior saying was "Life of the party!" Activities included Thespians, Dramatic Productions, and National Forensics League. (In those days his last name was spelled "Ruppert.")
