(2018) Michael Mohammed is a performer, director, and educator who has been seen in Luna Pearl Woolf’s Act Without Words (Bard Music West, world premiere), as the Fakir in Secret Garden (42nd Street Moon), as Fatty in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Redwood Symphony), and in the dance film Separate Sentence. His operatic roles include the title character of Handel’s Orlando (Black Box Baroque) and Bertarido in Rodelinda (Handel Opera Project). He has also collaborated with the ensemble-created theatre companies Mugwumpin and EmSpace. Recent directing credits include Song of the Nightingale (Town Hall Theatre) and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Bay Area Children’s Theatre). He works for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as the Director of the Musical Theatre Ensemble. Also a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, Teacher’s College, his research looks at the representation of marginalized persons in operatic and theatrical performance and training. www.michaelmohammed.net