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Michael Arden

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Director b. 1982 On stage 20032019

Michael Jerrod Moore (born October 6, 1982), known professionally as Michael Arden, is an American actor and theatre director. Arden has received two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Musical, winning for the revival of the musical Parade in 2023 and Maybe Happy Ending in 2025.

On stage 3 productions, 16 years

2003 Big River Theatre not recorded · Revival 67 perf.
2006 The Times They Are A-Changin' Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Original · directed by Twyla Tharp 28 perf.
2019 King Lear Cort Theatre · Revival · directed by Sam Gold 76 perf.

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Also credited on5 works

Maybe Happy Ending
Once on This Island (2017 Revival)
The Queen of Versailles
The Lost Boys
Ben Platt: Live at the Palace

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature1 passages

  • Voice of First Man Walter Charles Alice; Voice of Alice’s Daughter; Slave Gwen Stewart Alice's Daughter; Slave Christina Ellison Dunams Ensemble: Michael Arden, Gina Ferrall, Phyllis Frelich, losif Schneiderman, Scott Barnhardt, Rod Keller, Ryan Schlecht, Drew McVety,theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2003-04 Season, v. 60 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — director — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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