| Full Name: | Michael Peter Grady |
| Date of Birth: | 18th April, 1987 |
| Specialisms: | Performing, Directing |
| Education: | 1998-2003: Buxton Community School 10 GCSEs 2003-2005: Buxton Community Sixth Form 4 A-Levels 2005-2008: Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts BA (Hons) Acting |
| Hobbies & Other Skills: | Film, Sketching, Drinking beer |
| Favourite Moon of Neptune: | Thalassa |
| Not otherwise known as: | Mike O'Grady |
| Anagram of Full Name: | Replace Him? Tradegy! |
Michael is currently training at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Whilst at RADA roles have included: Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet, Creon in Blood Ties (a version of Antigone), Sordido in Women Beware Women, Ed/Edward Goodchild/Josh in The Strangeness of Others, Alceste in The Misanthrope and Deeley in Old Times.
Previous to training, roles on stage have included: John Proctor in The Crucible, Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Judas in Godspell, Ishmale/Testiculo/Piles and others in The Coarse Acting Show and The Coarse Acting Shows Strike Back!, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet: Deceased (with The Rec Theatre Company), Widow Twankey in Trouble in Pantoland, an award-winning performance as Danny McKeilty in one-man show Later Showers (Best Young Actor 2004 Buxton Fringe), Harry Brewer/Captain J. Campbell in Our Country’s Good, Andre/Claude in the musical Plane of Existence (Best Musical Comedy 2005 Buxton Fringe) and Iago in Othello (with Three’s Company). In the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival he has played Cyril in Princess Ida, Jack Point in The Yeoman of the Guard, and KoKo in The Mikado (Best Youth Performance 2005 International G&S Festival). Other roles include Fagin in Oliver!, Cookie in Return to the Forbidden Planet and the title role in Bugsy Malone.
Offstage he has co-written Trouble in Pantoland and Dryland. He has stage-managed a number of productions including Shirley Valentine, Othello, When the Wind Blows and Our Day Out. Michael has worked as an Assistant Director on A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Wizard of Oz, The Dracula Spectacula Show, Trouble in Pantoland, and Oliver!.
He has also worked as a Director, directing Dryland and The Visitor (for The Rec Theatre Company), for Three’s Company the award-winning Platformation (Best Production by a Young Company 2003 Buxton Fringe), its sequel Income Taxi, the award-winning Play on Words (Best Production by a Young Company 2006 Buxton Fringe) and in a co-production with fragile theatre A Woman of Uncertain Age, for which he won Best Direction 2007 (Lost Theatre Company: One Act Play Festival, Tristan Bates Theatre).
Outside of theatre, Michael enjoys film, drawing and berating the hatless.
