Michael Hisamoto

Michael Hisamoto is a Boston-based actor, playwright, educator, and director. Recent acting credits include Hold These Truths, Stage Kiss, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Fast Company (Lyric Stage), Allegiance (SpeakEasy Stage Company), Charlotte’s Web (Wheelock Family Theatre), Yellow Face (The Office of War Information), The Ordinary Epic (Crose to Home Productions), and The Important Thing about Earthquakes (Watertown Children’s Theatre). A strong proponent of new work, Michael has developed, workshopped, directed, and performed in readings of new plays for companies like The Huntington Theatre Company, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, HowlRound, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Gloucester Stage, Company One, Plays in Place LLC, Rhombus Writer’s Group, MIT’s Music and Theatre Arts, Harvard University’s Black Playwrights Festival, Boston University’s School of Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, In Vivo Productions, The Pao Center For The Arts, Fresh Ink Theatre Company, and more. In addition to his acting work, Michael was a Playwriting Resident at the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival, and has directed or assisted on numerous productions across Boston including projects for the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, The Huntington Theatre Company, The Open Theatre Project, and Boston University, and he briefly led a children’s theatre troupe in Southern California, where he was also recognized for his work as a youth in the theatre by the California State Assembly and Senate. Michael believes in educating the next generation of artists, teaching and having taught at multiple institutions, including residencies in the education departments of the Huntington Theatre Company and Lyric Stage Company of Boston and happily offers career consultation free of charge to young artists of color. Michael is a graduate of The Orange County School of the Arts and Boston University. A proud member of Actor’s Equity Association. michaelhisamoto.com