Michael Cotey, Artistic Director 
Ensemble Member Since: 2009 (Co-Founder)
Michael is a founding member of Youngblood and serves as Founding Artistic Director. In addition to his performance credits listed below, Michael has a background in grant writing and does freelance work for Write Now! Consulting as part of their Grant Squad™. He is quoted in the the book Grant Writing Made Simple  - 87 Tips for Great Grants by Dr. Sally Stanton.

He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2008. While earning his degree, Michael coordinated the Milwaukee County High School Theatre Workshop Day for two consecutive years and was awarded the Corliss Philibaum Scholarship and Cindy Poulson Memorial Scholarship. mcotey@youngbloodtheatre.com mailto:mcotey@youngbloodtheatre.com?subject=Hey%20Cotey!%20Tell%20me%20about%20Youngblood!shapeimage_1_link_0

Current/Upcoming Projects:

Macbeth with the Utah Shakespearean Festival

Merchant of Venice with the Utah Shakespearean Festival

Much Ado About Nothing with the Utah Shakespearean Festival

The Zapruder Film (NAPP Reading) with the Utah Shakespearean Festival

The Diary of Anne Frank with the Utah Shakespearean Festival

Pericles with the Utah Shakespearean Festival (Understudy)

Young Playwright’s Festival with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (Directing)


Previously with Youngblood:

Spirits to Enforce (Director / Sound Designer)

Red Light Winter (Sound Designer)

Various in The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

Mark in God Bridge


Other Theater Credits:

Happy Now? (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Henry V (Quasi-Productions), Muffin’s, Man (Pink Banana Theatre Co. one-act festival) Witness, A Thousand Cranes (First Stage Children’s Theatre), Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Twelfth Night (Milwaukee Shakespeare), The Dumb Waiter, The Laramie Project (Player’s Guild), Townlands of Brazil (Acting Irish Festival - reading), A Soldier’s Tale, Equus (In Tandem Theatre).


University credits: Great Expectations (reading), The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Of Mice and Men, West Side Story, The Liar, From These Green Heights (World Premiere), Nickel and Dimed, Inspecting Carol.


Other Notable Works:

Independent Film: Tracks (as Associate Producer, Script Supervisor, and actor) - Winner of the “Wisconsin’s Own” award at the Wisconsin Film Festival (2007 dir. Josh Rosenberg & prod. Niels Mueller)

Former Acting and Administrative Intern at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater (2009-2010)

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