Michael Erickson
Saint Louis, MO
Biography

Michael Erickson’s work has been produced at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Dance Theatre Workshop, and Via Theatre, in New York; A Director’s Theatre in Los Angeles; the Empty Space Theatre, Pioneer Square Theatre, and the Floating Theatre in Seattle; Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis; the Cleveland Public Theatre in Cleveland; the Imaginary Theatre Co. (St. Louis Repertory Theatre) in St. Louis. His collaboration with Malashock Dance & Co. toured the country and was produced on PBS. His work has won several awards, including a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting, California Arts Council Award, and the Mobil Playwriting Competition International Prize (Royal Exchange Theatre, England). He was Playwright-in-Residence at the Tennessee Repertory Theatre in Nashville for the 2011-2012 season, where he developed Honor Student. Honor Student was selected for the Play Lab readings at the Great Plains Theatre Conference, 2012. A graduate of the MFA Theater Program at the University of California, San Diego.