Improv For Social Skills

Victoria Park Community Centre

248 Gloucester Street, 6101, East Victoria Park, WA, Australia

Michael Becker

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My creative credits include award winning stage and screen work.Theatre wise, I co-wrote an original cabaret called Caught Between the Sheets & Stage Lights, which was nominated for a Broadway World Sydney Award for Best Cabaret Performance in 2017. In 2019 I directed a staged reading of Jump for Jordan by Donna Abela at New Theatre & assistant directed Follow Me Home for Australian Theatre for Young People, directed by Artistic Director Fraser Corfield.In 2020 I produced the Australian premiere of The Spoils by Jesse Eisenberg and wrote and directed a one act play called inner weather (Chippen St. Theatre) which played a sell out two week season to positive critical response. In 2022 I produced and acted in the Australian premiere of Radiant Vermin by Philip Ridley.Film wise, I directed the short films I Love You Fish (Uni Shorts Film Festival - Best Short Film nomination 2013), All The Things You Could Have Been (Melbourne Underground Film Festival Official Selection 2018), Super Fans, for Young Actors Assembly in Sydney, as well as Omission and Samsara (Lift Off Sessions Official Selection 2020), both of which I wrote, directed and produced.Most recently I co-wrote, co-produced and acted in a short film called No Film Sets in Bankstown (2022) which played at Sydney Underground Film Festival in 2023 and was funded by Western Sydney Uni.My acting credits include the Australian premieres of Radiant Vermin (Chippen St. Theatre) & The Spoils (Flight Path Theatre), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (New Theatre), A Servant of Two Masters & Madame Ballet, both directed by John Senczuk, Wasted (Southwark Playhouse, London), Assassins (SUNY New Paltz), Mad Forrest (West Australian Youth Theatre Co.) and How to Change the World and Make Bank Doing It (Limelight on Oxford).I have completed the long form improv curriculums @ Laugh Masters Academy, Improv Theatre Sydney and the mecca of long form improv, iO in Chicago. I have a Bachelor's degree in theatre, which I completed on exchange @ SUNY New Paltz, New York and a Masters degree in directing for film from the WA Screen Academy.I’ve completed acting, comedy and voice classes at The Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City, Stage Door School of Performing Arts, the Hub Studio Sydney, Acting Mastery and independently with Wayne Blair, Darren Gilshenan, Ben Matthews, Donald Woodburn, Stevie Ray, Ian Toyne, Michael Sheasby, Zeke Simat, among others.