Michael A. Shepperd

Los Angeles acting roles include Matilda (Miss Trunchbull), The Producers (Roger DeBris; Ovation Award nominee), Fences (Troy; Ovation, LADCC nominations), BootyCandy (LADCC nomination, Ovation, Stage Raw Win), The Color Purple (Mister; Ovation award), Steel (Ovation Award), Master Harold and the Boys (NAACP theatre award nomination), The Producers (Ovation Award nomination), Intimate Apparel (NAACP Theatre Award), Choir Boy (NAACP nomination); and Shout Sister Shout. As an actor, he recently appeared as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Open Fist, and in Athol Fugard’s Valley Song at International City Theatre. Broadway/Regional credits include: Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan; The Seafarer; Little Shop of Horrors; Caroline, or Change; Whipping Man.

Shepperd’s directing credits include Blood at the Root at Open Fist Theatre Company, for which he received a Stage Scene LA “Scenie” award for Best Direction of a Play, as well as a Los Angeles Drama Critic Circle nomination for Best Director; Twelve O’Clock Tales with Ava Gardner at the Whitefire Theatre (Stage Raw Top Ten); The Boy From Oz (Ovation Award, LADCC Award, Best Director); Rotterdam at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (LADCC Award Best Production, Stage Raw award for Best Production and nomination for Best Director; West Addams at the Skylight Theatre (LA Times Critics Choice); Laughter on the 23rd Floor at the Garry Marshall Theatre (Scenie Award for Director of the Year, Broadway World nomination for Best Director); The View Upstairs (Broadway World Award, Best Director); Sucker Punch at Couerage Theatre; Too Heavy for Your Pocket at Sacred Fools (LA Times Critics Choice); and productions of The Next Fairy Tale, [title of show], and Rent.

TV: NCIS: Origins, Bosch, Why Women Kill, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Soul Man, Hot In Cleveland, Wizards of Waverly Place, Monk, Criminal Minds, NCIS.