{"id":18249,"date":"2023-10-16T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T16:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/?page_id=18249"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:48:43","slug":"michael-butler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/client\/actors\/michael-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Michael-Butler-headshot-800x985.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18250\" width=\"262\" height=\"321\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Butler\u2019s acting credits include the Broadway productions<br>of <em>Macbeth <\/em>and <em>Two Shakespearean Actors<\/em>, and leading roles Off<br>Broadway at the Roundabout, the Public Theatre, Classic Stage<br>Company, the Vineyard Theatre, the Pearl Theatre and<br>international tours of Russia, Europe and Australia. Of his many<br>regional theatre credits, highlights include the title role in <em>Candide<\/em><br>at the Guthrie Theatre, roles at Arena Stage, the Long Wharf, the<br>Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cal Shakes, San<br>Jose Rep, and at Center Rep where he was artistic director from<br>2005 to 2020. Most recently, Michael played Robin in Ensemble<br>Theatre Company\u2019s production of <em>The Children<\/em> opposite Linda<br>Purl and Nancy Travis. A graduate of the Juilliard School and a<br>member of the Actors Studio, Michael is also a published<br>songwriter and the co-writer\/composer of numerous music-theatre<br>pieces, which he has performed in New York, LA, and at theatre<br>festivals in India and Morocco. In his varied career as a performer,<br>he has performed with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company,<br>portrayed the villainous Pierre LeChance on The Guiding Light,<br>and played guitar and harmonica in many rock, blues, and country<br>western bands at CBGBs and other notable dives in NYC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Butler\u2019s acting credits include the Broadway productionsof Macbeth and Two Shakespearean Actors, and leading roles OffBroadway at the Roundabout,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":87,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18251,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18249\/revisions\/18251"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}