Michelle Beck

Michelle Beck

BFA in Acting, SUNY Purchase
AEA and SAG-AFTRA
She/Her

Michelle is an actress, director, producer, and teaching artist based in NYC. She hails from Charleston, SC and is a proud summa cum laude graduate of the SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory.

On screen, she has had recurring roles on “Power Book II: Ghost” (Starz) and “Luke Cage” (Netflix) as well as appearances on “Fleischman is in Trouble” (Hulu); “The Good Fight” (CBS); “Eric” (Netflix); Manifest” (NBC); “Claws” (TNT); “Homeland” (Showtime); “Madam Secretary (CBS)”. Film credits: “Ovum”; “Ambition’s Debt”; “Death of a Prince”; “Spinning Into Butter”.

Broadway/Off-Broadway/International theater credits include: A Raisin in the Sun (Broadway); Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Public Theater); A Kid Like Jake (LCT3); As You Like It, The Tempest (BAM/Old Vic – The Bridge Project); Much Ado About Nothing (Theater for a New Audience); Measure for Measure (Epic Theatre Ensemble); The Changeling (Red Bull); Uncle Vanya (Pearl); The Sentinels (59e59); Start Up (German Theater Abroad). Regional credits: Top Girls (ACT); The Wanderers (Old Globe); Richard and Jane and Dick and Sally (Baltimore Center Stage); King Charles III (ACT, Seattle Rep, Shakespeare Theater); Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare); Tartuffe (McCarter/ Yale Rep); Hamlet (Shakespeare Theater); Winter’s Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac (Oregon Shakespeare Festival).

As a director, she wrote, directed, and produced the film The Snakes currently on HBO and Max. Her award-winning film The Traumatist is currently on the festival circuit, starring Robert Picardo and Amelia Workman. Her production company, Beck to the Future Films, creates films about social justice issues including women’s rights, queer identity, environmentalism, and race. She has films and projects on/with Vogue, Conde Nast, Milk Makeup, Vimeo Staff Pick, Short of the Week, and Alter.

She has taught acting to all ages: from elementary school to professional actors to senior citizens at various institutions across the US, including the Public Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, American Conservatory Theater, TheatreWorks, and Epic Theater Ensemble. She teaches sophomore acting at CAP21.