Mike Spara, MFA 2020

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Area of StudyActingHeight 5'7Hair Color BlackEye Color HazelVoice BaritoneEmail michael.spara@gmail.comWebsites http://www.mikespara.comWatch videoLanguages Spanish

Resume


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

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

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).

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