Michael Galligan is a playwright, actor, and teaching artist based in Brooklyn. Michael's work has been developed and performed at Irondale Center, The Deep End, 59E59 Theater, Upper Jay Art Center, The Hollows, and ZOO at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His first full-length devised piece, Solarplexus, an eco-cyberpunk sci-fi comedy utilizing a self-powering bicycle generator, made its international debut to positive critical reception (“...of considerable wit and guile,” said The List in a four-star review) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018. This past year, he co-created, wrote, and performed in BiRDBRAiNS through two creative residencies in Brooklyn and the Adirondack Mountains. Since summer of 2019, Michael has produced and curated a monthly clown and physical comedy variety show at Gertie, Pine Box Rock Shop, and more recently on Zoom called Do The Funny Show. His work draws on elements of clown, Bouffon, commedia d’ellarte, and LeCoq mask; combining them with a focus on ensemble development to create dynamic and highly collaborative movement-based pieces.
