Mike Turniansky
- Actor
Growing up in Highland Park, New Jersey, the youngest son of Simon and
Jeanette Turniansky, Michael appeared in many plays at Highland Park
High School and Highland Park Conservative Temple and Center. This
included such roles as Cheswick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,
several roles in Under Milkwood, Fagin in Oliver! and Jonah in Jonah.
Attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he received a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science in 1988, Michael continued to act in plays, taking on the role of Simon Disagree in The Continuing Sage of Bungling Bill and Lovely Lil, and Charles Darwin in Peacocks and Big Blocks.
After college, Michael continued to act in community theater, starring as David Kolowitz in Enter Laughing for the Jewish Community Center in 1993, and as Swift, Don, and Manuel in the Jewish Theatre Workshop's production of All in the Timing in 2008. Other JTW productions he has appeared in are in the role of Mr. Meyers in Spinning into Butter, Reb Azriel in the Dybbuk, Uncle Louis in Lost in Yonkers, and the Thane of Ross in Macbeth.
Blood and Stone: A Legend of the Golem (2009) is his first appearance in film.
Attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he received a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science in 1988, Michael continued to act in plays, taking on the role of Simon Disagree in The Continuing Sage of Bungling Bill and Lovely Lil, and Charles Darwin in Peacocks and Big Blocks.
After college, Michael continued to act in community theater, starring as David Kolowitz in Enter Laughing for the Jewish Community Center in 1993, and as Swift, Don, and Manuel in the Jewish Theatre Workshop's production of All in the Timing in 2008. Other JTW productions he has appeared in are in the role of Mr. Meyers in Spinning into Butter, Reb Azriel in the Dybbuk, Uncle Louis in Lost in Yonkers, and the Thane of Ross in Macbeth.
Blood and Stone: A Legend of the Golem (2009) is his first appearance in film.