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 MICHAEL
ROTHHAAR
Michael Rothhaar has been a professional actor since 1975 and
a professional theatre director since 1985. He won the 1997 Los
Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and the 1997 Drama Logue Award
for Outstanding Lead Performance in ARDÈLE, as well as
the 1997 Drama Logue Award in Direction for MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION.
Both productions were for Pacific Resident Theatre.
As an actor, he appeared on Broadway in
THE FRONT PAGE and THE CORN IS GREEN, in such feature films as
THE NUTTY PROFESSOR and SPACE JAM, Off-Broadway in FRANKENSTEIN
and BRAND, in the San Francisco company of THE FOREIGNER, the
Los Angeles company of SHEAR MADNESS, in the Geffen's productions
of UNCLE VANYA and CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, and the American premiere
of DOG DAYS, (written and directed by Simon Gray)...as well as
working at The Mark Taper Forum...covering in EXPECTING ISABEL.
He has worked on various television series such as FAMILY LAW,
(recurring as Judge Prentiss), BONES, THE PRACTICE, ACCORDING
TO JIM, ALLY MC BEAL, MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE, ARLISS (recurring
Guest Star), NYPD BLUE, THREAT MATRIX , ITS ALL RELATIVE, THE
X-FILES, FRASIER, STRONG MEDICINE, NIKKI, MURDER ONE, STAR TREK-THE
NEXT GENERATION, MURPHY BROWN, BUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, L.A.
LAW, CIVIL WARS, PICKET FENCES, STEP BY STEP, HUDSON STREET,
DR. QUINN, MEDICINE WOMAN, MARRIED ...WITH CHILDREN, SNOOPS and
LOVE AND WAR.
His credits also include numerous appearances
in regional theatre, notably: SLEUTH and CHARLEY'S AUNT at the
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION at
Cincinnati Playhouse and Rep/St.Louis, THE UNDERPANTS at Capital
Repertory in Albany, THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL,THE TEMPEST
and THE ANDERSONVILLE TRIAL at Michigan's Meadow Brook Theatre,
TERRA NOVA at the Washington Stage Guild in Washington, D.C.,
CANDIDA and BEDROOM FARCE at Maryland's Olney Theatre, and the
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award-winning production of
THE VISIT at the Pacific Resident Theatre.
In the course of his acting career, Michael
has worked with such notable and talented individuals as Tony
Award-winning directors Jerry Zaks and Vivian Matalon, acclaimed
director Michael Langham, the distinguished English playwright
Simon Gray, as well as such accomplished performers as John Lithgow,
Richard Thomas, Brenda Fricker, Imogene Coca, Wallace Shawn,
René Auberjonois, Dennis Franz, Kathleen Quinlan, Eddie
Murphy, Robert Foxworth, Elizabeth McGovern, Dixie Carter, Janet
Leigh, Andy Griffith, Peter Donat, Ray Walston, Peter Gallagher,
Brent Spiner, Cecily Tyson, Orson Bean, Alley Mills, Tony Danza,
Mariel Hemingway, Alan King, John Astin, Louie Anderson and Michael
Jordan,.
Michael served as the Artistic Director
of Pennsylvania's Allenberry Playhouse from 1987 to 1992. For
Allenberry, he has directed 40 productions, notably: LETTICE
AND LOVAGE, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, AGNES OF GOD, THE FOREIGNER,
BLITHE SPIRIT, DRIVING MISS DAISY, THE MIRACLE WORKER, STEEL
MAGNOLIAS, BROADWAY BOUND, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, LEND ME A
TENOR, CABARET, GUYS AND DOLLS and MY FAIR LADY.
He has directed OTHERWISE ENGAGED, CANDIDA,
MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION, WAITING FOR GODOT, THE HASTY HEART,
RELATIVE MADNESS, THE USUAL , THE PRIVATE EAR and MACBETH ....ACCORDING
TO THE FIFTH GRADE for Pacific Resident Theatre. At the Ensemble
Theatre of Santa Barbara, he directed THE LAST FLAPPER. In Washington,
D.C., he directed MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION and THE MILLIONAIRESS
at the Washington Stage Guild. In 1994, he directed SLEUTH, which
toured southern California.
Michael does voice narration and has served
as an Adjunct Instructor in Theatre and Speech at Valley College
in San Bernardino, CA.
Michael is the father of Will Rothhaar,
an accomplished and award-winning actor in his own right, and
the step-father of Charles F. Linehan, an accomplished Assistant
D.A. for New York's Borough of Manhattan.
Theatrical Agent: Dedicated, The Jerry
Pace Agency 818 501-8919
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