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Gregory Mikell (AEA SAG ATRA: Most recently he made his theatre debut with New Century theatre in Initiate Apparel, Quantum Theatre’s Breakfast With Mugabe. Other work includes Othello and Macbeth as part of New Perspective Theatre’s Shakespeare’s Villains series, New Jersey Repertory’s Theatre- Brute Series, All For Love with Boomerang Theatre at NY Center Stage, The Exonerated at Florida Studio Theatre, Gentleman caller in a Creative Artist Lab adaptation of The Glass Menagerie as well as The Seagull. Other work includes Wings Theatre Company’s ” Richard The Lionheart while rehearsing with Stage East ensemble for a production of Lee Blessing’s “A Walk In The Woods” in the role of John Honeyman. Soon after, he played the role of Kulygin in Chekhov’s Three Sisters with the Prospect Theatre Company, The Memory Orchestra at HERE Art Center, Welcome To Our City by Thomas Wolfe at The Mint Theatre, toured with Theatre Works USA’s The Color of Justice by: Cheryl Davis. Other favorite roles include Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Cloten in Cymbeline, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy. Film credits include Imogene with Kristen Wiig, Choke with Sam Rockwell, Every Day with Helen Hunt & Brian Dennehey, ,The Guiding Hand (AKA 7E)g Hand and Blood Run Free. Prior films include the lead role in the Indie The New Movie an action thriller: Heart Attack a romantic comedy, Buddy Hampton a jazz short biopic, The Warrior Class by Alan Hruska and Hitler’s Strawberries, a comedy, as well as being a voice-over artist, having recorded for TV and film such as ABC’s 20/20, National Geographic and film / documentaries.