Michael Baron

Michael Baron is the Artistic Director of Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. He recently directed Lyric’s RAGTIME, OLIVER!, BOEING BOEING, ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE, DECEMBER DIVAS, and THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW. He has directed over 65 productions at theaters across the country including the new production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. Other directing highlights include: Signature Theatre: SIGNATURE SINGS; THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED; THE LOST SONGS OF BROADWAY: VOL. I and II; SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD (Signature at the Music Center at Strathmore) starring Alice Ripley, Brian D’Arcy James, Titus Burgess, Laura Griffith and music direction by Jason Robert Brown; THE SEX HABITS OF AMERICAN WOMEN. NYC: Off-Broadway and National Tour: NICE JEWISH GIRLS GONE BAD, MISS RICHFIELD’S HIGH HAIR, HIGH HOPES, HYGIENE; La Mama: THE WHORE OF SHERIDAN SQUARE (wrote and directed, published in anthology Plays and Playwrights 2006), MODERN LIVING. REGIONAL: Goodspeed Musicals: MEET JOHN DOE; Ford’s Theatre: THE CIVIL WAR (Associate Director); Washington Savoyards: THE MUSIC MAN; Lincoln Theatre: JULIA NIXON: LIVE IN CONCERT; Adventure Theatre: STUART LITTLE, YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN; Trinity Repertory: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, A CHRISTMAS CAROL; Perishable Theatre: LAMARCK; NEA: 2010 Poetry Out Loud National Competition Finals with host, John Leguizamo. Teaching: American University, Brown University, Holy Cross College, and Rhode Island College. Michael received a 2003-2005 NEA/TCG Directing grant and he has been a theatre grant panelist for the Mead Theatre Lab 2006-09, National Endowment for the Arts 2005, and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts 2003. Training: B.A. in Theatre Arts, Wake Forest University; MFA in Directing, Trinity Repertory Conservatory. Michael comes to Oklahoma having served as the Associate Director of Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia-winner of the 2009 Regional Theatre TONY Award.