velina brown

michael gene sullivan

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Velina Brown and Michael Gene Sullivan are veteran actors, singers, and theatre professionals. They've appeared in over a hundred productions, ranging from American classics at the American Conservatory Theatre , to exciting new work at the Denver Center Theatre Company and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, to outrageous political musical comedies at the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe , and from traditional plays at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival to avant-garde new work at acclaimed companies like Shotgun Players, Theatreworks, The Magic Theatre and Word for Word . They've appeared in film, television, and have performed in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and across the United States.

Click here to listen to an interview of Velina and Michael on the Bay Area Actor's Podcast.  

Michael is also Resident Playwright for the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the director of the critically acclaimed, all-women Circus Finelli, is a regular blogger on Huffingtonpost.com, and is the author of "1984", the stage adaptation of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel. Directed by Academy Award winning actor Tim Robbins, "1984" premiered at Los Angeles' Actor's Gang Theatre, and in the past few years the Gang's production has toured Europe, Asia, Australia, and across the United States.

Velina is the creator of a personal consultation service, The Business of ShowBiz, and a regular columnist for Theater Bay Area Magazine, helping the beginning and journeyman actor pick their way through the agent, union, and contract minefield of our business.
 

To hear song and voice-over demos, click here.

Both Velina and Michael are Collective Members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, but work extensively outside of the company. They've been fortunate to frequently perform together - as lovers, as hero and villain, and as mother and son in one production - and father and daughter in another.

In between all this they also found time to get married and have a son, Zachary. 

The Business of Showbiz

An Incomplete List of Theatre Productions featuring the work Of Velina Brown and Michael Gene Sullivan