Michael Gardiner is a NYC/NJ-based actor, director, writer, producer and educator. More info below!

Last year, he appeared with Oscar-Winner F. MURRAY ABRAHAM in Edward Albee's Fragments.

Michael is a transformative character actor & everyman with a wealth of theatre experience: from Shakespeare to Shepard, realism to the absurd, regional to Off-Broadway. He is continuing to expand into TV/Film/Commercials.

From 2016-2024 he was the Managing Director of The Black Box, based in Northern NJ. As an actor/producer there, he developed new/under-produced plays by Eric Bogosian (1+1 Off-B'way transfer to The SoHo Playhouse), John Patrick Shanley, Craig Lucas, Paul Schrader, Beth Henley, Neil Labute, Halley Feiffer, the Estate of Sam Shepard and more. With the Estate of Edward Albee he was instrumental in developing FROM A TO ZOO: A STAGED READING SERIES OF ALL OF EDWARD ALBEE'S PLAYS.

When he's not creating, Michael is probably logging movies on Letterboxd or reading the classics with his cat, Arya Stark.