Michael LeslieEmail:

SAG-EligiblePhone: 773-396-8578

Height:6’0”Hair Color:Dark Brown

Weight:175Eye Color:Brown

Stage (Partial List):

The Taming of the ShrewPetruchioTheatre Hikes

The MousetrapDetective Sgt. TrotterNorth Lakeside Cultural Ctr.

FrankensteinHenry ClervalTheatre Hikes/NLCC

The Big FunkGregoryWTA Scene Showcase

Barebones & Skin: The Dangling ConversationNo Uncertain WordsThe Side Project

Days of Wine and RosesRadford LelandSt. Sebastian Players

The Lion the Witch and the WardrobeMr. BeaverTheatre Hikes

Cat on a Hot Tin RoofBrick PollittVirginia Samford Theatre

Night of January 16thDefense Atty StevensSouth City Theatre

Death of a SalesmanHappy LowmanBirmingham Festival Theatre

Night WatchJohn WheelerACTA Theatre

A Christmas CarolYoung EbeneezerBirmingham Children's Theatre

The Beauty Queen of LeenanePato DooleyBirmingham Festival Theatre

Absurd Person SingularGeoffry JacksonBirmingham Festival Theatre

Four Blinks of the Eye (Hopeless Romantics)JohnSouthern Playworks,

Fifth of JulyJedBirmingham Festival Theatre

Titus AndronicusQuintus / PubliusGarden Variety Shakespeare

Cyrano de BergeracGentleman / CadetBirmingham Children's Theatre

Film (Partial List):
Soul of the Game BartenderHBO Productions
Big Fish Paratrooper (extra)Columbia Pictures
E=MC3 French waiter Remy Productions (Cannes Film Festival)

Alice's Misadventures in Wonderland Darkman Single Feather Pictures (Sidewalk Festival)
Nether Regions: To Err Dr. Danny Breen Otterworks (Sidewalk Festival)
Guardian Angels: Women's Participation

in the War Between the States Dying Union soldier WALKALAHomeEntertainment
Valley of the Lost Souls II: ResurrectionSteven LanghorneBlack Scorpion Films

The Zoo Story Peter UAB Dept. of Film
The Mind of McCoy William Wilvin Media
Painting Janine Gunter King-Le-Walker Productions

Commercial work:

Over 50 industrial films, commercials, and print advertisements

Commercial Resume Available Upon Request, or see

Training & Education:

ActOne Studio, Chicago: Advanced Scene Study (S. Scott); Meisner (S. Moore); Voice & Diction (L. Fisher); Industrial Video/Ear Prompter (A. Jacques); Advanced TV/Film (J. Alderman/O. Fedunyszyn/J. Heitz); Commercial Technique (Sylvestrak); Directing (D. Cromer)

Comedy Sportz, Chicago: Improvisation I

Mike Pniewski, Atlanta: Advanced TV/Commercial Workshop

University of Alabama at Birmingham: Department of Theatre/Film

Special Skills:

Strong familiarity with Biomedical/Technical material; Medical Writer.

Athletics: competitive swimmer, volleyball, racquetball, soccer, ping-pong, billiards, darts, Tae Kwon Do;

Some trumpet (7 years); Culinary skills (AND love to eat); “Hot Hands” virtuoso;

Trained in dialects (esp. Southern, Irish, French)v.10-07