Raised in West Virginia, the New Orleans based Michael Cerveris is a Grammy award winning singer/songwriter, guitarist, and co band leader of the New Orleans based Loose Cattle band, who toured the US and UK as a guitarist for Bob Mould, but also happens to have been declared "possibly the most versatile actor on Broadway" by Playbill magazine, while The Wall Street Journal suggested he "might just be the best musical-theater performer we have."
Over the years, Cerveris has sung on tours with Pete Townshend, The Breeders, and Stone Temple Pilots, opened for Frank Black and Vic Chestnutt, and recorded with Teenage Fanclub and members of Sonic Youth, The Posies, Sleater-Kinney, and Guided By Voices. He has also sung with New York City Opera, National Symphony in DC, New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center. Cerveris has recorded three solo albums for his label Low Heat Records, Hinterlands, Dog Eared and Piety, and three releases with his New Orleans based Americana band Loose Cattle, whose Christmas album, Seasonal Affective Disorder, was chosen one of Rolling Stone Country’s “Ten Country/Americana Records To Hear Right Now” and awarded 3 out of 4 stars by the LA Times. The band has graced the cover of OffBeat magazine and appeared at Jazz Fest, French Quarter Fest, Americana Fest in Nashville, twice on NPR's Mountain Stage, at Lincoln Center as part of the American Songbook series, and a NY gala honoring President Bill and Secretary Hillary Clinton.
In his day job, Cerveris is a two-time Tony Award winning actor for Fun Home, The Who’s Tommy, and Assassins, (also Lucille Lortel Award) with additional Tony nominations for Evita, LoveMusik, and John Doyle’s Sweeney Todd. Other Broadway includes In The Next Room, Hedda Gabler, Cymbeline, and Titanic. Off-Broadway includes King Lear, Macbeth, Abingdon Square, Nikolai and the Others, Sondheim's Road Show, an oak tree, and The Games at BAM/Next Wave with Meredith Monk and Ping Chong, as well as Hedwig off-Broadway, in Los Angeles and on London's West End. He was honored with the United States Mayors Council’s Americans For The Arts Citizen Artist of the year award in 2018.
Cerveris' film work includes Ant Man and The Wasp, Cirque Du Freak and The Mexican. Television series received a SAG Award nomination for Best Ensemble in Julian Fellowes’ “The Guilded Age,” David Fincher’s “Mindhunter,” Stephen Soderberg’s “Mosaic,” David Simon’s “The Plot Against America” and "Tremé," "Gotham," "The Tick," “Blacklist,” “Madame Secretary,” "The Good Wife," and five seasons as September, the Observer, on "Fringe."
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