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Michael Blevins

MICHAEL BLEVINS is originally from East Tennessee. He attended the University of North Carolina, majoring in Acting and Dance and continued his studies in the performing arts at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has appeared in several Broadway productions including, Bring Back Birdie, Neil Simon's Little Me, and the Tony Winning Tap Dance Kid in which he created the role of Winslow. Major film roles include a bit in Zelig, and a supporting role in the screen biography Chaplin, yet he is most widely known for his portrayal of Mark in the movie, A Chorus Line.

Blevins worked for Tony and Academy Award-winning directors and choreographers Sir Richard Attenborough, Joe Layton, Woody Allen, Vivian Matalon, Peter Gennaro, Danny Daniels and Bob Fosse. He performed with such notables as Chita Rivera, Michael Douglas, Andy Griffith, Donald O’Connor, Diane Lane, Victor Graber, Brooke Shields, Savion Glover, James Coco, Bebe Neuwirth and Robert Downey, Jr. He was featured on ABC’s Good Morning America, and on the covers of Dance Magazine and USA Today. In his youth, Blevins studied extensively with dance master Mallory Graham.

Michael is also an accomplished director/choreographer. He choreographed the Off-Broadway production of The Mad Forest for the Manhattan Theatre Club and several national TV commercials for Days Inn and music videos for Melba Moore and Amy Grant. He lent choreographic assistance to network TV specials including CBS’ How To be A Man with Scott Baio and The Country Music Awards with Charlie Daniels and Barbara Mandrell for NBC. He directed and choreographed the National Tours of Babes in Toyland, Aladdin and Tom Sawyer for The American Family Theatre. He was commissioned to create American Sampler: 100 Years of Musical Theatre Dance for the New Jersey performing Arts Center as part of their state-side Theatre Academy for public school children.

Along with Gwen Verdon, he co-founded the MTW Academy, the only young people’s musical theatre program run by a professional Off-Broadway theatre company. Former students include Broadway and film actress Melissa Errico, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’s Alfonso Ribeiro and Tony Award-winner Savion Glover. He has taught for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ exclusive studio program, Broadway Dance Center, Summerfest Ballet Conservatory, public school systems in NY and NJ, the Tennessee Association of Dance, Georgia State University, Nebraska Dance Teachers Association and the Folkuniversitete Balettakademien in Sweden, under the artistic direction of Lia Schubert.

He is presently Artistic Director for the noted Centenary Young Performers Workshop housed by the Centenary Stage Company, a resident Equity theatre at Centenary College. He most recently appeared in an Equity Staged Reading, in New York City of a new play, Murder On The Sea Bird written by noted scripter Mary Orr who penned the magazine article and play The Wisdom of Eve on which the famous film All About Eve was based.