• Mike Spara, MFA 2020

  • Mike  Spara
    Area of Study Acting
    Height 5'7"
    Hair Color Black
    Eye Color Hazel
    Voice Baritone
    Email [email protected]
    Websites
    http://www.mikespara.com
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    Experience Name: MFA Production Series
    Show: Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist
    Character: Fagin
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Playwright: Neil Bartlett
    Director: Melissa Maxwell

    Show: Swimming with Fish
    Character: Daniel Fish
    Playhouse / Producer: Ebstein & Blakesberg
    Director: Sam Blakesberg

    Experience Name: NYU Tisch School of Arts, Film & TV Thesis
    Show: Troop 264
    Character: Craig Patton
    Playhouse / Producer: NYU Tisch School of Arts
    Playwright: Neil Bartlett
    Director: Zachary Goldberg

    Experience Name: 89th Academy Awards, Commercial
    Show: Bananas Town
    Character: Dad
    Playhouse / Producer: Walmart
    Director: Seth Rogen & Evan Greenberg

    Experience Name: Music Video
    Show: Everything Now
    Character: Chemistry
    Playhouse / Producer: Arcade Fire
    Director: Ray Tintori

    Experience Name: MFA Production Series
    Show: Balm in Gilead
    Character: John
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Playwright: Lanford Wilson
    Director: Raelle Myrick-Hodges

    Show: As You Like It
    Character: Jacques, Corin
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Playwright: William Shakespeare
    Director: Diane Machin

    Experience Name: Krymov Projects
    Show: Sound of the Broken String
    Character: Mr. Webb
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Playwright: Dmitry Krymov
    Director: Dmitry Krymov

    Show: Enoch Arden
    Character: Narrator (Solo)
    Playhouse / Producer: College of Performing Arts, The New School
    Playwright: Alfred, Lord Tennyson & Richard Strauss
    Director: Stephen Brown-Fried

    Experience Name: San Francisco Sketch Fest, Chicago SketchFest, Toronto Sketch Fest
    Show: Stupid Time Machine
    Character: Performer
    Playhouse / Producer: Various
    Playwright: Lead Writer
    Director: Founder

    Education

    MFA Candidate, School of Drama, The New School

    Middlebury College (MA in English, 2012; Spanish 2011)

    Catholic University (BA&S 2003, Minor in Music - Piano Performance)

    Skills

    Extensive improvisation and sketch comedy experience. Conversational fluency in Spanish. Basic French.

    Experienced musician - piano, guitar and drums. Bass - Baritone singing range (F2 to F5). Dance - member of 610 Stompers (New Orleans male dancing krewe with performances in Macy’s and Saints & Pelicans halftime shows).

    Training

    Acting - Peter Jay Fernandez, Scott Whitehurst, Kathryn Rossetter, Daniel Alexander Jones, Tea Alagić

    Voice - Andrea Haring, Patricia Fletcher, Susan Cameron, Alba Quesada

    Movement - Erica Fay, Cynthia Reynolds, Teva Bjerken, Shannon Stowe, Shelley Wyatt

    Improvisational Comedy - Upright Citizen’s Brigade, Annoyance, Improv Olympic, Under the Gun, The Armory, addt’l

    Sketch Comedy - Second City Chicago, Kevin McDonald (Kids in the Hall), addt’l

    Tectonic Theatre Project - Moment Work, Jimmy Maize

    Pig Iron Theatre Company - Devised Work, Dan Rothenberg

    Extensive movement training & Devising with Synetic Theater as company member - Paata & Irina Tsikurishvili

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