Michael R. Piazza is a director, actor and theater educator based in New York City. Directing: the East Coast premiere of Marja-Lewis Ryan’s award winning play One in the Chamber in Washington DC, Brunch in Babel at the New York Theater Festival, and Romeo and Juliet, The Lottery and The Fall of the City (also adaptor) for the Atlantic Acting School. Acting: Tales from the Rabbit Hole, The Book of Esther (Joust Theater Co.) Empire Travel Agency (Woodshed Collective), Romeo and Juliet (Northwest Passage), The Tenant (Woodshed Collective), The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Atlantic Theater), and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Pipeline Theater Co.). Michael is a teaching artist with multiple organizations serving all five boroughs, was an adjunct professor at The College of Mount Saint Vincent, and was a faculty member for ten years at the Atlantic Acting School. Michael graduated with honors from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
