Jon-Michael Reese
Jon-Michael Reese
BFA in Acting/Musical Theatre, Carnegie Mellon
AEA
He/Him
Jon-Michael Reese is an actor, musician, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Broadway: A Strange Loop (Broadway). Off-Broadway credits include White Girl in Danger (Second Stage Theater), The Fires (Soho Rep), Marry Me a Little (New Ohio Theatre), and When We Last Flew (Lucille Lortel Theatre).
Regional credits include James Baldwin in Jimmy and Lorraine (Pillsbury House Theatre, Minneapolis), Efua in My Heart is the Drum (Village Theatre, Seattle – Gregory Award: Outstanding Actor), Theo in Theo (Two River Theater, Red Bank), This Bitter Earth (Penumbra Theatre, St. Paul), Man of La Mancha (Theatre Latté Da, Minneapolis), Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (Adirondack Theatre Festival, Glens Falls), Cordelia in King Lear (Exit, Pursued By a Bear, Toronto), and The Fantasticks (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park).
He is passionate about new work and collaborative storytelling, and brings that same energy to his work as a teacher and mentor—inviting students to follow curiosity, ask bold questions, and stay grounded in presence and breath.
