Michel Harris actor / director 415-533-6136

 

 

Michel's Performances

Drama, Music, Voice Over, Headshots, Resume , Reviews, Monologues, Bios, Awards, Certificates

last update: Nov, 2019 - Michel is a junior, currently attending SFSU after receiving a AA-T Theater at College of Marin

 

Dr Frank Furter, Rocky Horror Picture Show - Floor Show, SFSU 11/2019

Doc Porter , Crimes of the Heart, Ross Valley Players, Patt Nims, 2019

Asst Dir, Odyssey, Yes, RVSchools, Jasper Thelin, 2019

Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Twelfth Night, Ross Valley Players, Jennifer LeBlanc, 2018

Voice work, Kursk, Theater Lunatico, Tina Taylor, 2018

Asst Dir, Shrek Jr, Musical, Yes, RVSchools, Jasper Thelin, 2018

 

Centaur, Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe, College of Marin, Lisa Morse, 2016

 

May 2016, King Lear, Edgar, Directed by Jim Dunn

March 2016, Gossamer, Assistant Director, Directed by Lisa Morse

December 2015, MidSummer's Night Dream, Throckmorton Theater, Mill Valley, dir. Tina Taylor

October 15, 2015, Revenge of the Space Pandas, College of Marin Brown Bag Theater, "Binky"

September 2015, Misalliance, College of Marin, "Bentley", dir Molly Noble

review in Marin IJ

August 2015, Play On!, College of Marin Drama Club, "Billy", dir. Keara Reardon

July / August 2015, In the Heights, Marin Summer Theater, Ensemble, dir. Patrick Nims

June/July 2015, Into the Woods, Marin Summer Theater, "The Wolf" and "Cinderella's Prince", dir. Patrick Nims

as Cinderella's Prince-

https://youtu.be/BUabMtPyxJw

SInging Agony with Rapunzel's Prince

as the Wolf-

"https://www.youtube.com/embed/7Au6LjkNp_k"

May 2015, The Seagull, College of Marin, Assistant Director, dir Molly Noble

May 14, 2015, Brown Bag at College of Marin, scene from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern- Michel directs Jennely and Ariana

March 2015, Comedy of Errors, College of Marin, First Merchant and Balthazar, dir Molly Noble

September / October 2014 Little Women, College of Marin, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, dir Lisa Morse

The Taming of the Shrew, College of Marin, Cowboy Henchman, dir James Dunn

this video is of the stunt fall from the balcony

 

2013 The Mouse that Roared, College of Marin, General Snippit, dir Lisa Morse

 

March 2012 Drake HS- Servant of Two Masters- Silvio, dir David Smith

 

March 2012 Drake HS- The Kiss, written and directed by David Smith, Michel plays Tommy

http://youtu.be/yxv8es39EF

 

Fall 2012 Amy Winehouse Project by David Smith.

http://youtu.be/4AmV_tGjUDA

Fall of 2012 Drake Fringe Fest

January 2011 Vahalla to Midgard, Drake HS, dir David Smith

2009 Freshman Year at Drake

• The spirit of Marshmellow
• Something about a teacher dying of cancer.

2008 - Sherlock Holmes- Doc Watson directed by Jasper Thelin

March 2008 - Bye Bye Birdie

http://youtu.be/MrM5fl7hV4

 

Music

Guitar - mentored by Tom Finch of Fairfax x ? years.

Singing with guitar- La Vie en Rose

http://youtu.be/Ms9vF9fkfMY

Crazy lil Thing

http://youtu.be/jvWR-M4m0d4

Singing with Adriane

http://youtu.be/C43FPghfSm8

 

Voice Over

Classes at VoiceTrax of Sausalito

 

 

http://youtu.be/YPLRXrsY9ww

 

MIchel narates in Spanish for a school project.

http://youtu.be/hDLT53_UQv8 

 

Photos

Stephanie Mohan photos, Summer 2015
		Michel as Cinderella's Prince in MST's Into the Woods
Michel as the dad in Bye Bye Birdie	MIchel sings "Kids"

Additional skills: Guitar, video production, character creation, dance, stage combat

Bios

118 words- last update August 2016:

Michel Harris just received his Associate of Arts in drama from the College of Marin. Michel has been active in theater for the past ten years and has appeared in many Bay Area productions including the sold-out "King Lear" at College of Marin, directed by James Dunn where he played Edgar. Michel recently appeared in Marin Summer Theater's production of "Into the Woods" for which he received an award for "Best Supporting Actor" from the National Youth Arts Association for his roles as the Prince and the Wolf. In addition to stage productions, Michel is beginning to pursue a side career in voice acting with Bay Area Sound. In his free time, Michel paints, directs, and climbs trees.

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Reviews:

King Lear - Spring 2016

Tiburon Ark - May 11, 2016 - " David Abrams gives a poignant performance as the fool, as does Michael B. Harris as Edgar, who shares the storm and its hardships with Lear" Screen shot

Streetcar - Fall 2016

10-2016 - streetcar Marin IJ - screenshot, original link at MIJ

Twelfth Night - Fall 2018

10-2018 - "Michel Benton Harris as Sir Andrew owns the stage when he enters,
a combination of dynamic energy, colorful facial expressions, and physicality, seemingly in his element with the Shakespearean fete."

http://forallevents.info/reviews/ross-valley-players-timeless-twelfth-night/

10-2018 - " Harris' foppish Sir Andrew falls too much in the background initially, but rises to the fray in some brilliant fight scenes with Grahn."

https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/sanfran/s1923.html

10-2018 - "The relationship between Orsino and Olivia, and the twins’ separation, are presumably the play’s main focus, but in Leblanc’s hands it’s the antics of Sir Toby Belch and his sidekick Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Steve Price and Michel Benton Harris, respectively) that provide the laughs.... It’s an amazing spectacle of hyper-comedic excess, and Harris does a very good job of keeping pace with him. It’s so spectacular, in fact, that many of the other performers appear lackluster by comparison. "

https://www.marinij.com/2018/10/03/ross-valley-players-stage-an-uproarious-twelfth-night/

"Fools Rush in" theater review by Harry Duke in the Pacific Sun, dated Oct 10, 2018

"characterizations they they steal the show. Steve Price’s hilarious Sir Toby is a marvel of inebriated unctuousness, constantly teetering on the precipice of collapse yet able to participate in the takedown of the haughty Malvolio. Malvolio’s transformation from stuffed shirt to yellow-gartered buffoon to wounded victim is well played by Rodgers.

Michel Benton Harris does the almost impossible as Toby’s patsy Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Often played as an annoyingly foppish idiot, Harris manages to underplay the role and makes the teddy-bear-carrying character cute and almost lovable."

https://pacificsun.com/fools-rush-in/, also https://northbaystageandscreen.com/2018/10/10/review-twelfth-night-in-ross/

Monologues

The Worker

Olivia's Garden website ,

https://youtu.be/bOlUpDuFMlw
3 min video of 2 monologues

 

Awards!

National Youth Arts Awards 2016 for Outstanding Supporting Actor for role as the Wolf and the Prince in "Into the Woods" at Marin Summer Theater, screenshot
"Outstanding Supporting Actor (College Division):
Michel Benton Harris as Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince in Into the Woods (Marin Summer Theater)"

Certificates

Stage Combat- Besides training with Richard Squeri at College of Marin

Small Sword - Berkeley Rep, April 2018

 

Regional Theater Links:

Theater Bay Area - https://www.theatrebayarea.org/.....auditions in February Marin Theater -https://www.marintheatre.org/ "The 2018-2019 season is fully cast. To submit your headshot and resume for future audition consideration, please e-mail casting@marintheatre.org. All professional actors who are interested in working at MTC are welcome to submit digital headshots and resumes at any time to the MTC casting department at casting@marintheatre.org. Save the trees! No hard copy resumes please. Equity Principal Auditions are held annually. Actors Equity Association actors are given priority slots. Non-union actors may stand by for open slots. EPA audition dates will be listed following the season announcement and are held in February of each year. Please note that MTC attends the annual Theatre Bay Area auditions around the same time, so there is no need to do both. Following the EPA, invited auditions are held on a per show basis by invitation only. MTC accepts recorded auditions from out of town actors also by invitation only. If you have not been called back, there is no additional notification sent from the casting department.  The casting department does its best to keep all called-back actors notified of casting timelines. Any called-back actor not cast will receive notification of release as soon as possible. MTC is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in casting and uses a color and culturally conscious approach to casting. Actors of every race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, and ability are encouraged to submit their materials and audition. If you have any questions about MTC's casting approach, please e-mail casting@marintheatre.org.

Broadway by the Bay - http://www.broadwaybythebay.org/auditions/ Novato Theater Company - https://www.novatotheatercompany.org/audition-list-4/ Marin Shakespeare - https://www.marinshakespeare.org/ , https://www.marinshakespeare.org/audition-information/ Ross Valley Players - http://www.rossvalleyplayers.com/auditions/ The Mountain Play- https://www.mountainplay.org/

 

 

Sister Sophia