Michael Shulman

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Michael Shulman born December 31 1981 is an American stage television film actor and coowner of New York and Los Angelesbased production company Starry Night Entertainment Born in New York City New York Shulman has been acting since childhood where he began his career in theatre and quickly appeared in more than 10 plays and musicals including a two year run on Broadway in Les Misérables the original cast of Stephen Sondheims Assassins and two plays by John Guare It was during this time that he began his recording career and has since appeared in more than 5 albums Shulman next turned to television and film and landed several roles including Jodie Fosters Little Man Tate M Night Shyamalans Wide Awake Disneys Can of Worms Foxs Party of Five 1994 and his critically acclaimed performance as Benny in the HBO special Someone Had to Be Benny 1996 for which he was nominated for a CableAce Award the youngest nominee in the Awards history and won a Daytime Emmy Award Shulman recently received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University with a major in the History of Art In 2006 Shulman teamed with Los Angelesbased Craig Saavedra who directed him in Rhapsody In Bloom to form Starry Night Entertainment In 2009 Shulman produced and starred in the comedydrama Shermans Way opposite James LeGros Enrico Colantoni Brooke Nevin Lacey Chabert and Donna Murphy In 2009 Shulman returned to the stage as Alan in JT Rogers play White People at the Atlantic Theatre Company In 2009 Shulman appeared as Assistant District Attorney Maxwell Cavanaugh in NBCs Law Order Shulman is an advocate for the arts and serves on the board of The New Wave a division of The Film Society of Lincoln Center He resides in New York and rescued a dog named Stevie from the ASPCA In 2010 Shulman associate produced the New York premiere of Craig Wrights Mistakes Were Made OffBroadway at the Barrow Street Theatre The comedy directed by Dexter Bullard starred Academy Award nominated actor Michael Shannon as Felix Artifex a Blist OffBroadway producer who gets in way over his fasttalking head when he takes on a gargantuan epic about the French Revolution which he thinks is going to be his ticket to professional and personal reclamation While trying to land a big star for the lead role he uses all his powers of persuasion seduction and intimidation to strongarm the writer into massively rewriting his play Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Shulman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia