Michael Arden was a student at Trinity School, a college preparatory school in Midland.
27 Facts About Michael Arden
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Michael Arden was accepted on a full scholarship to the Juilliard School, where he was in the Drama Division's Group 34.
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Michael Arden left Juilliard in 2003 to join the Broadway revival company of the musical Big River.
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Michael Arden starred opposite John Hill in the 2004 off-Broadway show Bare, a Pop Opera.
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Michael Arden played the title character in Pippin for the World AIDS Day Broadway benefit concert in November 2004.
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Michael Arden starred in the new Twyla Tharp musical The Times They Are A-Changin' based on the music of Bob Dylan.
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Michael Arden directed Deaf West Theatre's acclaimed Broadway revival of Spring Awakening.
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On May 3,2016 Michael Arden received a Tony Award nomination in the category Best Direction of a Musical for his work on the Spring Awakening revival.
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Michael Arden went on to direct the musical My Fair Lady at the Bay Street Theater in Southampton, New York in August 2016.
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Michael Arden then returned as the first Artist-in-Residence at the Wallis Annenberg Center, where he directed productions of The Pride and Merrily We Roll Along, for which he earned a 2017 Ovation Awards nomination for Best Director of a Musical.
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Michael Arden directed the first Broadway revival of the musical Once on This Island, which began previews on November 9,2017 and opened on December 3 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where it ran until January 6,2019.
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In November 2022 Michael Arden directed a production of Jason Robert Brown's Parade for New York City Center's 2022 Gala.
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Michael Arden has appeared on ABC's Grey's Anatomy and in Numb3rs for CBS.
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Michael Arden was cast in the Fox show The Return of Jezebel James, which aired and was cancelled after three episodes in the spring of 2008.
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Michael Arden had a recurring role in the NBC series Kings as Joseph, the secret boyfriend of the closeted gay heir to the throne, Prince Jack Benjamin.
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Michael Arden guest starred in an episode of The Closer as James Clark, a schizophrenic murder suspect, as well as guest starring in an episode of Bones as Harold Prescott.
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Producers of The Good Wife announced in August 2011 that Michael Arden had been cast in a recurring role as a potential love interest for the recurring character Owen Cavanaugh.
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Michael Arden starred alongside Charlie Sheen in the FX series Anger Management.
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Michael Arden appeared as Kevin in the film Bride Wars.
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Michael Arden was born to a very young mother who struggled with drugs and alcohol.
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Michael Arden went on to live with his grandparents who raised him from a very young age in Midland, Texas.
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Michael Arden remembers the moment he caught the acting bug when he was only four years old.
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Michael Arden's grandparents had taken him to see Sesame Street Live and he says there's a memorable picture of him in which he is just on the edge of his seat, absolutely mesmerized.
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Michael Arden found a great theatrical outlet through his community theater company called the Pickwick Players.
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Michael Arden found a mentor at the Episcopal school he attended, his English teacher, Shelly Wright.
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Michael Arden says he asked his grandparents to let him build theatrical sets in their own garage.
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Michael Arden got engaged to fellow Broadway and TV actor Andy Mientus on June 23,2014.