Michael Shulman

Born: 1981-12-31

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Michael Shulman (born December 31, 1981) is an American stage, television, film actor and co-owner of New York and Los Angeles-based production company Starry Night Entertainment. Born in New York City, New York, Shulman has been acting since childhood where he began his career in theatre and quickly appeared in more than 10 plays and musicals, including a two year run on Broadway in Les Misérables, the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, and two plays by John Guare. It was during this time that he began his recording career and has since appeared in more than 5 albums. Shulman next turned to television and film and landed several roles, including Jodie Foster’s Little Man Tate, M. Night Shyamalan’s Wide Awake, Disney's Can of Worms, Fox's Party of Five (1994), and his critically acclaimed performance as Benny in the HBO special, Someone Had to Be Benny (1996) for which he was nominated for a CableAce Award (the youngest nominee in the Award’s history) and won a Daytime Emmy Award. Shulman recently received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University with a major in the History of Art. In 2006, Shulman teamed with Los Angeles-based Craig Saavedra, who directed him in "Rhapsody In Bloom", to form Starry Night Entertainment. In 2009, Shulman produced and starred in the comedy/drama "Sherman's Way" opposite James LeGros, Enrico Colantoni, Brooke Nevin, Lacey Chabert and Donna Murphy. In 2009, Shulman returned to the stage as Alan in J.T. Roger's play "White People" at the Atlantic Theatre Company. In 2009, Shulman appeared as Assistant District Attorney Maxwell Cavanaugh in NBC's "Law & Order". Shulman is an advocate for the arts and serves on the board of The New Wave, a division of The Film Society of Lincoln Center. He resides in New York and rescued a dog named Stevie from the ASPCA. In 2010, Shulman associate produced the New York premiere of Craig Wright's Mistakes Were Made Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre. The comedy, directed by Dexter Bullard, starred Academy Award nominated actor Michael Shannon as Felix Artifex, a B-list Off-Broadway producer who gets in way over his fast-talking head when he takes on a gargantuan epic about the French Revolution which he thinks is going to be his ticket to professional and personal reclamation. While trying to land a big star for the lead role, he uses all his powers of persuasion, seduction and intimidation to strong-arm the writer into massively rewriting his play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Shulman licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


Placeholder

Recess: School's Out

as Hustler Kid (voice)
Released: 2001-02-16

The school year is finally ending, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to summer. But boredom...

Movie page

Little Man Tate

as Matt Montini
Released: 1991-09-06

Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a...

Movie page

Recess: All Growed Down

as Francis the Hustler Kid (voice)
Released: 2003-12-09

T.J. and The Recess Gang are kidnapped by the Third Street School's kindergartners, who are in...

Movie page

Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade

as King Freddy II / Hustler Kid (voice)
Released: 2003-12-09

Everyone's favorite fourth graders have graduated! It's an all-new school year for the kids —...

Movie page

Can of Worms

as Mike Pilsbury
Released: 1999-04-10

A teen is visited by aliens after he broadcasts a message into space.

Movie page

Wide Awake

as Robert Brickman
Released: 1998-03-20

The tale of a ten-year-old boy in a Catholic school who, following the death of his beloved...

Movie page

Murder in Black and White

as Kid with Boat
Released: 1990-01-07

A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to...

Movie page

Whose Daughter is She?

as Brad Eagerton
Released: 1995-09-24

Two mothers, one biological, one stepmother, fight for the custody and love of 13-year-old Andrea.

Movie page

The Pickle

as Young Butch
Released: 1993-04-30

Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead he made The Pickle - a...

Movie page

The Perfect Daughter

as Josh Michaelson
Released: 1996-08-01

Alexandra Michaelson has spent two years on the city streets as a runaway, but she awakens after...

Movie page

Sherman's Way

as Sherman
Released: 2008-02-29

An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid...

Movie page

Law & Order

as Kevin Miller
First aired: 1990-09-13

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...

TV Show page

Law & Order

as Maxwell Cavanagh
First aired: 1990-09-13

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...

TV Show page

Party of Five

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-09-12

Five brothers and sisters are determined to stay together following the tragic loss of their...

TV Show page

Chicago Hope

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-09-18

Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran...

TV Show page