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Michael Mohammed
stage director/choreographer
Michael Mohammed’s directing credits include X: The Life & Times of Malcolm X, Queenie Pie and White Darkness (Oakland Opera Theater), I Pagliacci (Cinnabar Theater), Trial by Jury (L/GCSF) and Men in Uniform (New Conservatory Theater). His production of Wilde Boys (New Conservatory Theater) is a 2008 Bay Area Critics Circle Award winner for Best Musical Production. As a performer, his roles include St. Ignatius (Four Saints in Three Acts), Avenant (Philip Glass’s La Belle et la Bete), Jake (Porgy & Bess), Bobby (Hijra) and Rabbi Motke Schmerel (Meshuga Nutcracker!). Mohammed studied classical ballet at Dance Theater of Harlem (scholarship) and Evansville Dance Theater and modern techniques at Alvin Ailey School, Barnard College and Joan Peters Dance Company. He has created original works for Orchesis Dance Group (NY) and Children’s Center of Dance Education (IN), and his choreography has been featured in productions by Peninsula Teen Opera, Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute, Ragazzi Boys Chorus and Pocket Opera. He holds an M.M. in vocal performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a B.A. in music and history/sociology from Columbia University.
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