Michael Cherrie

Awards Received: * Cacique Award for Best Supporting Actor ("The Joker of Seville") 1994 * Cacique Award for Excellence in Theatre * Best Short Film 2010 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, co-producer of "The Blood and the Bois" * Cacique Award nominations for Best Actor in 1996, 2007, and 2008 Michael was recently seen on stage in The Player's Workshop production of Peter Shaffer's Equus (Dr. Martin Dysart) in association with The Actors' Lab Trinidad, The UTT-Academy for the Performing Arts' productions of Derek Walcott's The Odyssey ('Blind' Billy Blue) and Marvin Ishmael's Look Twice, It's Your Wife (Bloods), Fifth Business' production of Derek Walcott's Pantomime (Jackson Phillip), Trinidad Theatre Workshop's production of Dennis Scott's An Echo in the Bone (Stone), and also 3Canal's 2010 Carnival theatrical presentation JAM-IT (The Police Corporal and The Prime Minister). He was also seen in 3Canal's 2007 production of The 3Canal Bachhanal Show where he played The Midnight Robber and their 2008 production of Shine; Caribeana Imperia again with 3Canal at the GALA Hispanic Theatre, Washington DC playing The Poems Man; Jesus Christ Superstar with The Baggasse Company playing Pontius Pilate and the David Rudder/Tony Hall musical The Brand New Lucky Diamond Horseshoe Club playing Michael Samson, Inspector Samuels and Landlord Edwards. Theatre credits in the United States include: A Streetcar named Desire (Pablo), Lobby Hero (William), The Three Sisters (Ferapont), A Selfish Sacrifice (an adaptation of A Doll's House) playing Balogun and The Madwoman of Chaillot (The Waiter) - all at The Denver Center Theatre Company; Othello (Othello) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford) at The Houston Shakespeare Festival; Antony and Cleopatra (Mardian) and The Comedy of Errors (Pinch/Balthazar) at The Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio) at The Colorado Springs/Theatreworks Shakespeare Festival; The Tempest (Caliban) at The Mill Mountain Theatre in Virginia; Blues for an Alabama Sky (Dr. Sam Thomas) at The Black Spectrum Theatre, NY; Salome (Iokanan) with The Colorado Opera Troupe; The National Theatre Conservatory's Rep productions of Equus (Frank Strang) and The Good Doctor (The General/The Sexton/The Bank Manager); The Dragon Can't Dance (Philo) at The Austin Arts Centre, Trinity College, Hartford, CT and The Joker of Seville (Batricio) and Dream on Monkey Mountain (Chorus) at The Huntington Theatre (Boston University Theatre), Boston, MA - on tour with The Trinidad Theatre Workshop. Most recently he was seen in the Crossroads Repertory Theatre production of A Raisin in the Sun where he played Walter Lee Younger and Arthur Feinsod's new play Table 17 where he played Winston Todd. His last appearance in the U.S. was as Marcus Garvey at The Centre for Caribbean Studies at Trinity College's "Marcus and Amy Garvey State Visit to Hartford, Connecticut". Other theatre credits in Trinidad and the Caribbean include: I, Marcus Garvey (Marcus Garvey) at The Centre for Creative and Festival Arts; Ti-Jean and His Brothers (Frog), A Man for all Seasons (The Common Man), Julius Caesar (Mark Antony) and Much Ado about Nothing (Benedick) - all with The Trinidad Theatre Workshop; Sing de Chorus (Inspector General) with Canboulay Productions at The Reichhold Arts Centre in St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands; Endgame (Hamm) and Three Kings Darkly (Michael Richards) with Immortelle Theatre and Lysistrata (Magistrate Commissioner) with Central Bank Productions. Michael received his professional training for the stage and screen at The National Theatre Conservatory's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree program at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts where he was seen in productions of Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream (Oberon/Theseus), GB Shaw's Arms and the Man (Capt. Bluntschli) and John Guare's Landscape of the Body (Raulito/Dope King). He also did an intensive in acting, voice and speech with The Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting. He has also appeared in several television commercials - from KFC to Stag to First Citizen's Bank to Enfagrow to BMobile among others - and award-winning public service announcements, voiced numerous radio commercials and worked with educational theatre companies such as Arts-in-Action and Trinidad Theatre Workshop's Theatre-in-Education company. He is a recipient of the Best Supporting Actor Cacique Award for excellence in theatre in 1995 for his work playing 'Batricio' in Derek Walcott's The Joker of Seville. He has been nominated for the Best Actor Cacique Award on several occasions. He was also awarded a Pioneer in Film Award in 2013 by The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. He has worked with such directors and teachers as the late Sir Peter Hall, the late Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, Gregory Doran, Donovan Marley, the late Israel Hicks, the late Sidney Berger, Robert Bennedetti, the late Earl Warner, the late John Isaacs, the late Devindra Dookie, the late Charles Applewaithe, Rawle Gibbons, Jere Lee Hodgin, Horace Ove, Yao Ramesar, Sonya Moze, the late Tony Hall, Wendell Manwarren, Albert LaVeau, Ellen O'Malley-Camps, Richard Schechner, David McClendon, Bette Howard, the late Murray Ross, Jennifer McCray Rincon, Belinda Barnes, Brenda Hughes, Larry Hecht, Sabin Epstein, Patrick Quagliano, Andrew Wade, Christine Menzies, Kirk Baltz, Dr. Arthur Feinsod, Ron Morales, Danielle Dieffenthaller Mervyn De Goeas and the late Derek Walcott. Michael also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Production with Theatre Arts from The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine; he is an Assistant Professor of Acting at The University of Trinidad and Tobago's Academy for the Performing Arts; he was a Board member of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company (now FilmTT), he was an Executive member (Education Officer) of the National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago; he was a member of the curriculum writing team for CXC's CAPE Performing Arts and he is a member of Actors' Equity Association of the United States of America - the union of professional actors and stage managers in the USA.