Michael Gene Sullivan is an Actor/Writer/Director/Activist based in SF. He is an alum of the Playwrights Foundation, and has been awarded both a Djerassi Arts Center Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship as a dramatist. Michael is also Resident Playwright for the Tony and OBIE award-winning SF Mime Troupe, where he has written or co-written over 30 plays, including “1600 Transylvania Avenue”, “Too Big To Fail”, “Freedomland”, “Making a Killing”, and “Back To The Way Thing Were”, as well as the Tales of the Resistance radio/podcast series. In 2024, in addition to writing SFMT’s summer hit “American Dreams”, his play Sign My Name To Freedom: The Unheard Songs of Betty Reid Soskin opened to critical-acclaim at the SF Bay Area Theatre Company, and his stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 – already translated into six languages and performed in fourteen countries on five continents – was produced by The Aurora Theatre. Michael’s other plays include The Great Khan, which premiered at SF Playhouse, San Diego Rep. and Chicago’s Red Twist Theatre. Michael has taught playwriting at the ACT, SFMT’s Young California Writers Project, has guest lectured on play creation or taught playwriting workshops at Yale, Stanford, Dartmouth, and USC. For ten years Michael was also a Contributing Writer for The Huffington Post. Michael’s directing credits include work with the SF Shakespeare Festival, Marin Shakespeare Company, the African American Shakespeare Company, Mystic Bison Theatre, TheatreFirst, and a dozen productions with the SF Mime Troupe. As an actor Michael has performed at theaters throughout the Bay Area (including at all four of the Bay Area’s Tony-winning theaters), has toured nationally and internationally – including off-Broadway and at the Kennedy Center.
San Francisco Mime Troupe’s latest production, “Disruption“, will be performed in Santa Cruz on July 13, 2025.
