Michael Bakkensen

Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Michael traveled east and earned his BA in English at Yale, studying with the late Harold Bloom. He completed an MFA at UCSD, working with directors Les Waters, Steve Cosson, Anne Kaufman and Andrei Belgrader and actors Marsha Stephanie Blake, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Ricardo Chavira, Dohn Norwood and Maria Dizzia. After graduating Michael move to NY for the Broadway revival of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" with Nathan Lane and Jean Smart. He continued to work on Broadway (Noises Off), Off Broadway (RX) and regionally in theater (incl. Guthrie, Mark Taper, Alley, Huntington, and La Jolla) while developing a TV and Film career, recording audio books for the likes of Jodi Picoult, and releasing two albums of original songs "Lionize" and "Sekara Grace" with a third in the works. He lives with his wife, daughter and adopted cat in Upper Manhattan.::'Michael Bakkensen' (qv)