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Michael
Ouellette, was
trained, at Brown and Harvard, to teach literature.
But while he was teaching English and Humanities at St Mary’s
College of Maryland, theater “hit,” and he went back to graduate
school to retool. After
earning an MFA in Southern Methodist University’s Professional Theater
Training Program, he free-lanced as an actor and director in Chicago,
where he also was Artistic Director of Bailiwick Repertory, for the
opening of which he directed a highly successful production of his own
edition of Shakespeare’s Pericles. While in Chicago, he was on the faculty of the University of
Illinois, teaching voice and acting.
Since returning to the east coast, he has taught at Skidmore
College and, since 1989, at MIT, where he is now Director of Theater.
At MIT, he has directed over fifteen productions and acted in three
others. He was the recipient
of the 1996 Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize, awarded by the MIT Council for
the Arts. Most recently he
has acted at the New Rep in Newton and at the Williamstown Theater
Festival, where he was the Acting Instructor for the Apprentice Program
for several years. In the
premiere of an MIT collaboration, the oratorio Reckoning
Time by Peter Child and Alan Brody, he created the role of Peter. He wrote the libretto for Charles Shadle’s opera, Coyote’s
Dinner, which was premiered at MIT in the fall of 2002 and arranged
the texts for Dr Shadle’s cantata, A
New England Seasonal.
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