Michael Gene Sullivan is an Actor/Writer/Director/Activist based in San Francisco. He has been awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and Djerassi Arts Center Fellowship as a dramatist, and is an alum of the Playwrights Foundation. Michael’s directing credits include work with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, the African American Shakespeare Company, Mystic Bison Theatre, TheatreFirst, and a dozen productions with the Tony and OBIE award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe (SFMT), where he is also  Resident Playwright. In addition to his over two dozen plays written for SFMT as a playwright Michael’s critically-acclaimed stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 has been translated into six languages and performed in fourteen countries on five continents, The Great Khan premiered at San Francisco Playhouse, Sign My Name To Freedom premiered this past Spring, American Dreams opened on the Fourth of July, and his next play, Red Carol will open this December. Michael has taught playwriting at the American Conservatory Theatre, SFMT’s Young California Writers Project, has guest lectured on play creation or taught playwriting workshops at Yale, Stanford, Dartmouth, USC, and for ten years Michael was also a Contributing Writer for The Huffington Post. As an actor Michael has performed at theaters throughout the Bay Area (including at all four of the Bay Area’s Tony-winning theaters), has toured nationally and internationally, off-Broadway and to the Kennedy Center. michaelgenesullivan.com