MICHAEL CERVERIS
 

Broadway: In The Next Room or the vibrator play, Hedda Gabler, Cymbeline, LoveMusik (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League award nominations), Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League award nominations, Drama Critics Circle citation), Assassins (2004 Tony Award winner, Outer Critics Circle Award winner, Original Cast Grammy nomination.), The Who’s Tommy (Tony nomination, Drama League nomination, Theater World Award winner, Original Cast Grammy winner) and Titanic.  London’s West End: Hedwig and the Angry Inch -- also Off-Broadway and Los Angeles (Garland Award winner, Ovation Award nomination)  Off-Broadway:  Road Show, King Lear with Kevin Kline at the Public Theater (Drama League Award nomination) Futurity at HERE Arts Center, and an oak tree at Barrow Street as well as premieres and revivals by Charles L. Mee, Lanford Wilson, Maria Irene Fornes and Christopher Hampton, The Games with Meredith Monk and Ping Chong (BAM Next Wave), Duncan Sheik’s Spring Awakening, The Apple Tree for Encores! and the Emmy Award winning broadcast of Sondheim’s Passion.  Regional: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Crow in Tooth of Crime, Richard II, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Eastern Standard, Passion (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration), Anyone Can Whistle, Sunday In The Park With George and A Little Night Music (Jefferson award nomination).  Film: includes Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, Stake Land (2010 Toronto Film Festival Cadillac Award), Meskada (Tribeca Film Festival 2010), Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Sundance 2009), The Mexican with Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and James Gandolfini and Paul Auster’s Lulu on the Bridge, Tokyo Pop, Rock & Roll High School Forever.  TV: currently The Observer on JJ Abrams’ “FRINGE” for FOX and Marvin Frey on HBO’s TREME, also Ian Ware on “Fame” and Gary Forbush on “The American Embassy,” as well as episodes of “Law & Order Criminal Intent,” “CSI,” “dr. vegas,” “The Equalizer,”  “Tracey Ullman Show” and others.  Music: in addition to concert appearances with the New York Philharmonic, NY Pops at Carnegie Hall, National Symphony Orchestra in DC and Chicago Symphony at Ravinia, as well as at Preservation Hall and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Cerveris toured the US & UK as guitarist with punk icon Bob Mould and has performed with Pete Townshend, The Breeders, Stone Temple Pilots, Frank Black, Teenage Fanclub and Lloyd Cole.  Recordings include his indierock debut, Dog Eared, for Low Heat Records available on iTunes.