Bio

Michi Barall is a New York City-based actor, playwright and academic. As an actor, Michi has appeared in new plays by Julia Cho, Philip Kan Gotanda, A.R. Gurney, John Guare, Naomi Iizuka, Han Ong, Jose Rivera, Paul Rudnick, Charles Mee, Sarah Schulman, Anna Deavere Smith, Diana Son, Lloyd Suh, Regina Taylor, Doug Wright and Chay Yew, among others. Michi's dance-theatre piece, Rescue Me, was produced at the Ohio Theatre by Ma-Yi in 2010. Her adaptation of Peer Gynt, entitled Peer Gynt and The Norwegian Hapa Band, premiered in 2017, at the ART/NY Theatre. Recently, Michi co-wrote the short film Sophocles in Staten Island with Sung Rno, directed by Jack Tamburri. Her current project, Drawing Lessons, a commission through the Mellon Foundation’s Generation Now program, will premiere this season at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis. Michi holds degrees from Stanford University (AB),  NYU (MFA, Grad Acting) and Columbia University (PhD, Theatre/English & Comparative Literature). She has taught at Columbia University, NYU and MIT and is currently full-time faculty in Theatre and Performance at Purchase College in New York.