Michelle Beck

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Michelle Beck (right) with Jenni Barber at the opening of the Bridge Project, Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Michelle Beck is an American actress based in New York City and Berlin.[1][2]

Personal life and education

Beck was born in Billings, Montana. She moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and attended the Charleston County School of the Arts. She then attended an all-arts boarding school, the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, for acting.[2]

Beck continued her university training at the SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory, where she graduated magnum cum laude with a BFA in Acting.

Career

Beck began her career at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she performed in The Winter's Tale and Cyrano de Bergerac. She also was in Spinning Into Butter, a film based on the play written by Rebecca Gilman, directed by Mark Brokaw, and starring Sarah Jessica Parker.

Beck first garnered attention when she played Ophelia in Hamlet[3] at the Shakespeare Theatre Company [4] in D.C., directed by Michael Kahn. She then went on to work with the director Daniel Fish playing Marianne in his Tartuffe [5] at the McCarter Theater and Yale Repertory Theater.

In 2008, Beck appeared as Viola in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of Twelfth Night,[6] directed by Josie Rourke, currently the artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse. That year, she was also part of a staging of the Dhammapada called The Way of the Buddha [7] at the Rubin Museum, directed by Nicole Ansari with Brian Cox, Ellen Burstyn, and Linus Roache. The performance also included the Venerable Rewatha, who chanted verses in Pali.

Beck next appeared in The Bridge Project,[8] a joint venture between the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City and the The Old Vic Theater in London, directed by Sam Mendes. Beck appeared as Celia in As You Like It and Ceres in The Tempest. Beck was featured along with Tony and Bafta award-winning actor Stephen Dillane, Juliet Rylance, Christian Camargo, Thomas Sadoski, Ron Cephas Jones, and Alvin Epstein.

In 2011, Beck appeared in Karin Coonrod's production of Love's Labour's Lost at the Public Theater.

In 2012, Beck workshopped a modern, musical adaptation of The Aeneid [9] for Red Bull Theatre, written by Canadian/Egyptian writer Olivier Kremeid, directed by Kay Matschullat, and music by Duncan Sheik. Also, Beck appeared in the Soho Rep workshop of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new play An Octoroon,[10] based on Boucicault's The Octoroon.

In the summer of 2012, Beck played 'Lady Anne' in Richard III at the Public Theater opposite Ron Cephas Jones [2] and directed by Amanda Dehnert.

In early 2013, Beck played 'Hero' in the Theater for a New Audience's production of "Much Ado About Nothing", directed by Arin Arbus. The cast included Maggie Siff and Jonathan Cake.

Current work

Michelle Beck is currently in the LCT3 production of "A Kid Like Jake",[11] written by Daniel Pearle (recipient of the Laurents/Hatcher award [12]) and directed by Evan Cabnet.

Selected stage work

  • "A Kid Like Jake", LCT3, Evan Cabnet (2013)
  • "Much Ado About Nothing", Theater for a New Audience, Arin Arbus (2013)
  • "Richard III", Public Theater, Amanda Dehnert (2012)
  • Love's Labour's Lost, Public Theater, Karin Coonrod, (2011)
  • The Bridge Project- As You Like It & The Tempest, BAM/Old Vic, Sam Mendes, (2009–2010)
  • Spoon River Blues, O'Neill Theater Center, Kyle Donnelly, (2008)
  • Twelfth Night, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Josie Rourke, (2008)
  • The Way of the Buddha, Rubin Museum of Art, Nicole Ansari, (2008)
  • Tartuffe, McCarter/Yale Rep, Daniel Fish, (2007)
  • Hamlet, Shakespeare Theater, Michael Kahn, (2007)
  • The Winter's Tale & Cyrano de Bergerac, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Libby Appel & Laird Williamson, (2006) [13]

References

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  1. ↑ "Michelle Beck at IMDB". 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Broadway World". 
  3. ↑ "Preening in Denmark". Kate Wingfield, Metro Weekly. June 21, 2007. 
  4. ↑ "Shakespeare Theater Interview". 
  5. ↑ "Tartuffe, or the Imposter". Robert L. Daniels, Variety. Oct 15, 2007. 
  6. ↑ "The Way of the Buddha". Lia Chang, liachang.wordpress.com. Oct 15, 2008. 
  7. ↑ "The Bridge Project 2010:As You Like It, The Tempest". Kate Kellaway, Guardian. June 26, 2010. Retrieved May 6, 2012. 
  8. ↑ "Red Bull's The Aeneid". Dan Bacalzo, Theatermania. Jan 31, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2012. 
  9. ↑ "Playbill". Adam Hetrick. April 18, 2012. Retrieved Sunday, May 6, 2012. 
  10. ↑ "Hollywood Reporter". May 8, 2013. 
  11. ↑ "NY Times". January 29, 2013. 
  12. ↑ "About the Artists". 


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