MICHAEL WHITE (DIRECTOR)  began a lifelong love affair with the American Theater while still in high school.  As a young actor, director, designer and technician, he won numerous awards in statewide theater competitions and earned a scholarship to the prestigious University of Texas Department of Drama.  In addition to his work on stage, he wrote and directed his first original play while still a high school junior.  By the time he graduated, he was already a veteran of nine Equity productions on the professional stage.

After a distinguished collegiate career, Michael returned to the professional theater wherein he served as an actor, director, designer and stage manager in playhouses from coast to coast.  Memorable roles include Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the narrator in Albee’s Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Lago in Othello, and a two-and-a-half year, box-office-record-setting tour of the comedy Hanky Panky.  In addition, he stage managed or assistant stage managed over twenty-five Equity shows.

After permanently relocating to Southern California, Michael began a career in film and television that has seen his work in such films as Body Double, Best Seller, The Elian Gonzales Story, The New Women and the A Day Without A Mexican.  On television, Michael has appeared in Kitchen Confidential, Strong Medicine, L.A. Heat, Murder, She Wrote, Melrose Place, Saved By The Bell, The Bold & The Beautiful and Days of Our Lives to name just a few. 

Behind the scenes, Michael served as assistant director on the national tour of The Odd Couple (Female Version) starring Barbara Eden and most recently helmed the world premiere of playwright Lizzie Maxwell’s Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl.

After innumerable assignments on stage and in film and TV, he still lists as his all-time favorites the roles of being dad to his amazing daughter, Michelle, and husband to his beloved wife, Jennifer.  And today, more than thirty years after Michael first set foot on a professional stage ... the love affair is still going strong.

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