Michael Faulkner

Category: Theater

  • Theater Roundup 2018; A Merry Summer Dream Achieved

    By far the highlight of my 2018 was achieving a childhood dream. Some background: my first professional acting engagement came at the tender age of 14, when I was cast as Donalbain in the Scottish Play, and William Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, for the summer repertory season at the then fledgling Santa…

  • 2017 News

    Click here to see the latest video of work. It’s the first time I’ve been able to use my (native) British accent on film. And the rest of 2017 is off to a great start! Look closely and you’ll see me as one of three fathers of a very famous identity in a commercial during a…

  • A Princely Pauper

    Next up? I’ll be appearing as the Lord Chamberlain (and at least two others) in The Prince and the Pauper at the MainStreet Theatre Company at the Lewis Family Playhouse in Rancho Cucamonga for February / March. Jack Benny would be proud.

  • Reston Reduced.

    So the company I’ve been touring with for the last 13 years, the Reduced Shakespeare Company, has played every single year since 1987 at the Reston Community Center in Reston, VA. How many touring groups can boast such a long, fruitful relationship with a presenter? So in honor of the 50th anniversary of Reston, many…

  • The Complete History of Comedy (abridged)

    There’s a new Reduced Shakespeare Company Show. And the Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged) (touring this winter – just two performances!) hasn’t even been published yet. I love that my friends and authors at the Reduced have been churning out the shows the past few years… and this one is incredible. They finally tackled a subject…

  • Flat Stanley. Sings. In Tune Though. Not Flat.

    It isn’t often I get hired to act alongside my wife, Amanda. Sure, we act out all the time at home. But at the beginning of the year we got hired together to play Mr. and Mrs. Lambchop in “The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley.” The first I heard of Flat Stanley was a few…