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MICHAEL BENZ

Height: 5' 10"
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Green

Nationality: British/American (dual nationality)
(Click here to hear my voice)

Theatre Whilst At RADA:

Character
Kuryatin/Young Chekhov
Chiron
Mephistopheles
Admetos
Ferdinand/Delio
Arthur Gower
Envysnake/Owl
Whitelock, Matt
Mellefont
Rat Joyce
Cooper Jones , Kolya Kuzakov
Colin
Production
The Good Doctor
Titus Andronicus
Faust
Alcestis
The Duchess of Malfi
Trelawny of the Wells
The Ash Girl
The Beggars Opera
The Double Dealer
Scenes from the Big Picture
Duck-Hunting
Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness

Director
Dee Cannon
John Beschizza
William Gaskill
Helen Strange
Melanie Jessop
Stephen Beresford
Tom Daley
Geoff Bullen
Richard Cottrell
Nona Shepphard
Sergei Tcherkasski
Graham Watts


Special Skills
BASSC Certificate in Stage Combat; Singing (tenor); Period Dance (Elizabethan, Restoration) and Flamenco; Accents – RP, General American and most regional accents both in the UK and America

Other Experience
Television – Mike in Mike and Angelo (ITV) 1992 – 1998, six series dir. Neville Green, Lord Fauntleroy in Little Lord Fauntleroy (BBC) dir. Andrew Morgan, Haulden Caulfield in BBC documentary JD Salinger Doesn’t Want to Talk; BA Psychology and Theology, Georgetown University, Washington DC; Theatre whilst at Georgetown – Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, The Bishop in The Balcony; Editor Daily in The Cradle Will Rock, Dr Miranda in Death and the Maiden, Reader and Protagonist in Beckett’s Ohio Impromptu and Catastrophe, Matthew in The Marriage of Bette and Boo

Special Interests
History – especially US and UK/European, current events, world religions, psychology, travel, London, walking

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