Michael Rothhaar
- Actor
Michael Rothhaar has been a professional actor since 1975 and a
professional theatre director since 1985. He won the 1997 Los Angeles
Drama Critics Circle Award and the 1997 Drama Logue Award for
Outstanding Lead Performance in Ardèle, as well as the 1997 Drama Logue
Award in Direction for Mrs. Warren's Profession. Both productions were
for Pacific Resident Theatre. As an actor, he appeared on Broadway in
The Front Page and The Corn Is Green, in such feature films as The
Nutty Professor and Space Jam, Off-Broadway in Frankenstein and Brand,
in the San Francisco company of The Foreigner, the Los Angeles company
of Shear Madness, in the Geffen's production of Uncle Vanya, and the
American premiere of Dog Days, (written and directed by Simon
Gray)...as well as working at The Mark Taper Forum...covering in
Expecting Isabel. He has worked on various television series such as
Family Law, (recurring as Judge Prentiss), Ally Mc Beal, Arliss, NYPD
Blue, The X-Files, Murder One, Star Trek-The Next Generation, Murphy
Brown, Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, L.A. Law, Civil Wars, Picket Fences,
Step By Step, Hudson Street, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Married ...With
Children, Snoops and Love And War. His credits also include numerous
appearances in regional theatre, notably: Sleuth and Charley's Aunt at
the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,The
Tempest and The Andersonville Trial at Michigan's Meadow Brook Theatre,
Terra Nova at the Washington Stage Guild in Washington, D.C., Candida
and Bedroom Farce at Maryland's Olney Theatre, and the Los Angeles
Drama Critics Circle Award-winning production of The Visit at the
Pacific Resident Theatre. In the course of his acting career, Michael
has worked with such notable and talented individuals as Tony
Award-winning directors Jerry Zaks and Vivian Matalon, acclaimed
director Michael Langham, the distinguished English playwright Simon
Gray, as well as such accomplished performers as John Lithgow, Richard
Thomas, Imogene Coca, Wallace Shawn, René Auberjonois, Dennis Franz,
Kathleen Quinlan, Eddie Murphy, Robert Foxworth, Dixie Carter, Peter
Donat, Ray Walston, Peter Gallagher, Brent Spiner, Cecily Tyson, Orson
Bean, Alley Mills, Tony Danza, Mariel Hemingway, Alan King, John Astin,
Louie Anderson and Michael Jordan,. Michael served as the Artistic
Director of Pennsylvania's Allenberry Playhouse from 1987 to 1992. For
Allenberry, he has directed 40 productions, notably: Lettice And
Lovage, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Agnes Of God, The Foreigner, Blithe
Spirit, Driving Miss Daisy, The Miracle Worker, Steel Magnolias,
Broadway Bound, The Diary Of Anne Frank, Lend Me A Tenor, Cabaret, Guys
And Dolls and My Fair Lady. He has directed Otherwise Engaged, Candida,
Mrs. Warren's Profession, Waiting For Godot, The Private Ear And
Macbeth ....According To The Fifth Grade for Pacific Resident Theatre.
In Washington, D.C., he directed Mrs. Warren's Profession and The
Millionairess at the Washington Stage Guild. In 1994, he directed
Sleuth, which toured southern California. Michael is the father of
Will Rothhaar, an accomplished actor in his own right, and the
step-father of Charles F. Linehan, recently engaged to be an Assistant
D.A. in Manhattan.
