Michael A. Newcomer

Executive Director and Co-Founder

AEA | SAG-AFTRA

Michael has called New Orleans home since 2015, after long stays in both New York City and Los Angeles.  Since moving here, Michael has appeared onstage with CCS as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and as Harry Trewe in Pantomime, at Le Petit Theatre in A Christmas Carol (2018/19) as Fred and Freud’s Last Session as C.S. Lewis, as well as Darcy in Christmas at Pemberly with Southern Rep and Calisto in The Illusion at the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival. Additionally, Michael was the curator of a staged reading series at the New Orleans Shakespeare festival, directing and performing in Othello, Titus Andronicus, and King Lear.  As a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association for 24 years, Michael has also performed in over 40 professional productions across the country including these favorites: Tom in Glass Menagerie (Virginia Stage), Christy in Playboy of the Western World (New Jersey Shakespeare and A Noise Within), Lelie in The Bungler (A Noise Within), Konstantin in The Seagull (Portland Center Stage), Macduff in Macbeth and Cassio in Othello (The Old Globe), Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest (Dallas Theatre Center), and Morris in The Heiress (South Coast Rep). Michael’s T.V./Film credits include:  Walker, Five Days at Memorial, I’m a Virgo, NCIS: New Orleans, Claws, Person of Interest, All My Children, A Thousand Cuts, A Father’s Revenge, Pants on Fire, In the Flesh, Harmony, Redemption, Unforgivable, Breaking News in Yuba County (where he plays husband to real wife Elizabeth Newcomer), and Where the Crawdads Sing.  He can also be seen roaming the virtual world of Red Dead Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto V and has appeared in national commercial campaigns for Volvo, Verizon FiOS, and Old El Paso.

Michael is a passionate advocate for sustainable wages for artists, support for parent artists, and shepherding a new vision and future for artists in theatre in film.