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Michael Peter Bolus

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  • Director
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Michael Peter Bolus received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Acting from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema and Television, his Masters Degree in Playwriting from Boston University, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He was also awarded a Playwriting Fellowship from the Boston Playwrights' Theatre where he spent a year in-residence, working closely with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott as Playwright, Director, and Dramaturg.

As an actor, his television credits include guest-starring and co-starring roles in NCIS, How to Get Away With Murder, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order: Los Angeles, Strong Medicine, Swift Justice, Sidney Lumet's 100 Centre Street, The Eleventh Hour, and J.J. Abrams's Undercovers. His film credits include Dolemite Is My Name starring Eddie Murphy, co-starring roles in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, Bleach, Bury the Evidence, and Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell. His stage credits include The Seagull (directed by Anna Deavere Smith), Sunshine (directed by Joe Brancato), and a variety of roles in such plays as The Country Wife, The Taming of the Shrew, Under Milkwood, The Imaginary Invalid, The Cherry Orchard, and True West, to name just a few.

Michael was the Artistic Producing Director of the Manhattan-based theatre company, Meanstreet, where his responsibilities included play selection, casting, directing, budgeting, grant-writing, fundraising, assemblage of respective creative teams, and a wide variety of additional managerial and administrative tasks.

Pound of Flesh, his most recent stage play, received its world premiere at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, and was subsequently produced under his direction at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival, The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles, and the Taos Center for the Performing Arts. His plays Attic People, Hats Canes Trunks Trains, West of Canaan, Shaman in the House, and Ex Machina, have been seen in productions, workshops, and readings throughout the country.

Michael has directed numerous plays in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Washington D.C., and wrote and directed the short films, Sullivan Street (Cannes Film Festival Shorts Corner), An Idea for the Killing, and directed the short film Importance of Ernest.

He is the author of two books on Film Studies: Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative: An Introduction (Anthem Press) and The Light in the Dark: The Evolution, Mechanics, and Purpose of Cinema (Cognella Press), and his Chapter, "Fortune's Knave: Sex, Politics, and Machiavellian Doctrine in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra" will be published in the upcoming anthology Playing Shakespeare: Monarchs and Madmen (Peter Lang Press).

His articles, interviews, and criticism have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly journals, including Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Slavic and East European Performance, Newsweek (Japan), The Montreal Review, and Modern Mask, and his poetry and prose were featured in the e.e. cummings Pre-Centennial Tribute.

Since 2014, he has been the Department Chair of the Liberal Arts Program at The Los Angeles Film School, overseeing and mentoring a dynamic, diverse, and multi-cultural faculty, staff, and student body, while simultaneously managing the Department's multi-million dollar budget and cultivating both community-based outreach programs and an array of international initiatives. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Film Studies at Santa Monica College. His current areas of specialization are Film Appreciation, Film History, Film and Society, Aesthetics and Film, Screenwriting, and Acting for the Camera.

He currently teaches Film History, Film Appreciation, and Screenwriting at Santa Monica College and Historical Archetypes and Mythology at The Los Angeles Film School. He has also taught Ancient Greek Theatre, Major Playwrights Seminars, and Introduction to Theatre Studies at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts; Critical and Historical Studies in Film, Film and Society, Screenwriting, Aesthetics and Culture, and Directing Labs at The Los Angeles Film School; Fiction, Poetry, and Playwriting at Boston University; English at City College of New York; Theatre History and Acting at both Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges in New York City; various seminars and workshops as Guest Artist at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine; he has also lectured internationally at the Beijing Film Academy and Kede College in mainland China.

For more information, please visit: www.michaelpeterbolus.com
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Poplar Bluff
Poplar Bluff
  • Director
    Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
    Sweet and Lowdown
    7.2
    • Lynch - Bar Room Friend(as Michael Bolus)
    • 1999
    Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Keegan-Michael Key, Tituss Burgess, Toni Duclottni, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph in Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
    Dolemite Is My Name
    7.2
    • Lester Bihari
    • 2019
    Alison Lohman in Drag Me to Hell (2009)
    Drag Me to Hell
    6.6
    • Mourner at Death Feast
    • 2009

    Credits

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    Actor

    • Teller's Camp
      • Post-production
    • Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Keegan-Michael Key, Tituss Burgess, Toni Duclottni, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph in Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
      Dolemite Is My Name
    • Viola Davis in How to Get Away with Murder (2014)
      How to Get Away with Murder
    • Law & Order: LA (2010)
      Law & Order: LA
    • Undercovers (2010)
      Undercovers
    • Hugh Mun in Chapter 21 (2009)
      Chapter 21
      • (voice)
    • Mark Harmon, Maria Bello, Wilmer Valderrama, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, and Diona Reasonover in NCIS (2003)
      NCIS
    • Alison Lohman in Drag Me to Hell (2009)
      Drag Me to Hell
    • Rufus Sewell in Eleventh Hour (2008)
      Eleventh Hour
    • Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Eric Bogosian, Julianne Nicholson, and Chris Noth in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
      Law & Order: Criminal Intent
    • Patricia Richardson and Rosa Blasi in Strong Medicine (2000)
      Strong Medicine
      • (as Michael Bolus)
    • Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
      Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
      • (as Michael Bolus)
    • Alan Arkin, Paula Devicq, Manny Perez, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, and Joseph Lyle Taylor in 100 Centre Street (2001)
      100 Centre Street
    • Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
      Sweet and Lowdown
      • (as Michael Bolus)
    • Ice-T, Sam Waterston, Mariska Hargitay, Camryn Manheim, Christopher Meloni, Jeffrey Donovan, Mehcad Brooks, Kelli Giddish, and Danielle Moné Truitt in Law & Order (1990)
      Law & Order
      • (as Michael Bolus)
    • Bleach
      • (as Michael Bolus)

    Director

    • Poplar Bluff
      • Pre-production
    • The Last Tiger
      • Pre-production
    • Sullivan Street (2014)
      Sullivan Street
    • Importance of Ernest (2013)
      Importance of Ernest
    • An Idea for the Killing (2011)
      An Idea for the Killing

    Producer

    • Poplar Bluff
      • Pre-production
    • The Last Tiger
      • Pre-production
    • Sullivan Street (2014)
      Sullivan Street
    • Importance of Ernest (2013)
      Importance of Ernest
    • An Idea for the Killing (2011)
      An Idea for the Killing

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