The Best Brothers

 MRT: Michael is delighted to be returning to MRT after playing James Tyrone Jr. in Moon for the Misbegotten and directing Three Songs. Off-Broadway/New York: Bug, Barrow St. Theatre; Bang Bang Blues, Joseph Papp Public Theatre; As You Like It, Riverside Shakespeare Co. Chicago: Hamlet, The Lion in Winter, The Father, Writer’s Theatre; Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Steppenwolf Theatre Company; The Dying Gaul, Apple Tree Theatre. Regional: Reckless, Driving Around the House, Jitters, Haut Gout, Prelude to a Kiss, Cold Sweat, Ghost in the Machine, Oleanna, South Coast Rep; De Donde?, New Mexico Rep; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Twelfth Night, Pittsburgh Public Theatre. International: Three Sisters, (Teatro Popular de Bogota, Colombia, S.A.); Film: Flags of Our Fathers, The Island, Hidalgo, Murder By Numbers, Striking Distance, Ratboy, and others. Television: Dozens of guest star appearances including most recently; Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, Bones, Criminal Minds, C.S.I Miami, and Entourage. Education: Michael considers himself lucky to have studied with two of the greats, Wynn Handman and Bobby Lewis. Other: Michael narrated The Bible for Warner New Media and voiced the Marquis de Sade for the History Channel. In May, he will appear in The Little Foxes with his wife Shannon Cochran at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

Daniel is originally from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and currently lives in Toronto and Avondale, Nova Scotia. From 1987 to 2007 with Sherrie Johnson he ran da da kamera, a respected international touring company that brought his work to Australia, Israel, Europe, the UK, Brazil, and extensively throughout Canada and the United States. Daniel has written numerous award-winning theatre productions including Small Things; Arigato, Tokyo; The Best Brothers; Bingo; See Bob Run; Wild Abandon; How It Works; The Soldier Dreams; You Are Here; In On It; His Greatness; A Beautiful View. His work has been translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, German and Japanese. With Daniel Brooks he created the solo shows House, Here Lies Henry, Monster, Cul-de-sac and most recently This Is What Happens Next. Daniel received Canada's Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in 2006 for his collection of plays I Still Love You and in 2008 he was awarded the Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize for Theatre. He is also the recipient of a New York Village Voice Obie Award and a GLAAD Award for his play In On It. Also a filmmaker he is the writer/director of Past Perfect, Wilby Wonderful the co-writer of Whole New Thing and the writer of Marion Bridge and Trigger.