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Michael Axelrod
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I'm an actor, teaching artist, writer, and avid Sailor Moon enthusiast.  Growing up outside the very artistic and cheese-steaky city of Philadelphia, I was exposed to theater at a young age; at 6, I mimicked the majority of Bill Irwin and David Shiner’s hit play “Fool Moon,” to the bemusement and terror of my parents.  I attended Skidmore College where I studied Theater and Japanese.  I also froze his patooty off in Russia, where I studied abroad at the Moscow Art Theatre and intensified my love of Chekhov and cabbage soup.  

I am currently a Swing for the Off Broadway production of Puffs at New World Stages.  I cover all six of the male tracks and have performed multiple times.  The New York Times calls Puffs a play that “Exudes a jovial, winking fondness for all things Harry.”  It was also a nominee for Best Unique Theatrical Experience at the Off Broadway Alliance Awards.  I look forward to continuing my performances with the Puffs ​family.

Previous credits include joining The Bats at the Flea Theater from 2012 to 2015, where he appeared in Restoration Comedy, The Shakes: Romeo and Juliet, The Cutthroat Series: The Blind, and many, many #serials@theflea. I have also appeared in The Bacchae  (Secret Theatre); Vera; or the Nihilists (HERE Arts Center) with Femme Fatale Theater; New George's One Minute Play Festival (New York City Center); The Accident  (Williamstown Theater Workshop), A Girl Without Wings (Iati Theater); Catacombs and Hurricanos  (Dixon Place), among others.  I starred in the short film Clover as a leprechaun, although I am definitely, 100% not Irish. 

I am also a Teaching Artist specializing in teaching Acting and Improvisation to children in grades Kindergarten-5th grade.  I currently work with both Wingspan Arts and the Queens Theatre.  I have  traveled to Slovakia, Ecuador and recently Tanzania with Dramatic Adventure Theater, creating devised theater and teaching children in underprivileged communities acting and play-writing.  Besides performing, I enjoy speaking faltering Japanese, collecting books (and reading them, I guess), and making jokes that only make me laugh. 

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