Michael Evan Haney

Michael is delighted to return to Vienna and the English Theatre where he previously directed The Syringa Tree. A native of Kansas City, Michael attended the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, received his BA in Theatre from The Catholic University in Washington, DC—lived in New York for twenty years and Los Angeles for eight years before becoming the Associate Artistic Director of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. For the Cincinnati Playhouse he has directed The Clean House, Reckless, Drawer Boy, The Syringa Tree, A Picasso, Hiding Behind Comets (World Premuier), A Christmas Carol, Proof, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and The Mystery of Irma Vep. For the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati he has directed Souvenir, Permanent Collection, Blue/Orange, Underneath the Lintel, Bed Among the Lentils, Syncopation, The Countess and Private Eyes. He was the Artistic Director of Allenberry Playhouse in Pennsylvania for five years where he directed over thirty productions including Shirley Valentine, Bus Stop, Gypsy, Crimes of the Heart and his own adaptation of Mark Twain’s Adam & Eve Diaries. Regionally he has directed for Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (Drawer Boy), Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Heidi Chronicles, Witness for the Prosecution, The Syringa Tree), Alabama Shakespeare Festival (All My Sons), Capital Repertory Theatre (The Underpants), Sacramento Theatre Company (The Comedy of Errors and Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting), Pacific Resident Theatre Company (Scotland Road an L.A. Premiere for which he received a dramalogue award for direction), Weathervane Playhouse (Sylvia and Camping with Henry and Tom) and The Washington Stage Guild (The Potting Shed by Graham Greene).

He began his career as an actor, appearing on Broadway in Elie Wiesel’s Zalmen, or The Madness of God, off-Broadway in The Devils, Return to the River and The Jail Diary of Albee Sachs. He worked regionally with Arena Stage (including their groundbreaking tour of the Soviet Union in 1973 in Our Town and Inherit The Wind), Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Missouri Repertory Theatre and Baltimore’s Center Stage. He played fourteen roles in the National Tour of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He is married to Amy Warner whose one-woman pioneer play As the Wind Rocks the Wagon Mr. Haney directed for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Lincoln Center and The National Archives in Washington.