{"id":377106,"date":"2025-09-24T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/?p=377106"},"modified":"2025-10-07T01:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:32:18","slug":"15-questions-in-15-minutes-with-stage-and-screen-star-michael-urie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/2025\/09\/24\/15-questions-in-15-minutes-with-stage-and-screen-star-michael-urie\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Questions in 15 Minutes with stage and screen star Michael Urie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emmy-nominated actor, producer, director, and host <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michael.urie.9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Urie<\/a><\/strong> is sure to enjoy a never-ending run on his proverbial 15 minutes of fame, with his ever-flourishing work on stage, screen, and behind-the-scenes. On Broadway, Urie is currently appearing in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohmaryplay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Oh, Mary!<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (through September 28) as Mary Lincoln\u2019s teacher, and recently starred as Prince Dauntless in<em>&nbsp;Once Upon a Mattress,<\/em>&nbsp;for which he earned a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for an Outer Critics Award. Equally well-known for his groundbreaking role as Marc St. James on the ABC TV series <em>Ugly Betty<\/em>, Urie can now be seen in the first two seasons of the award-winning AppleTV+ dramedy series <em>Shrinking<\/em>, for which he was nominated for a 2025 Emmy and earned the 2025 Critics\u2019 Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-in-Oh-Mary-pto-Evan-Zimmerman-for-MurphyMade-460x345.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-377172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-in-Oh-Mary-pto-Evan-Zimmerman-for-MurphyMade-460x345.jpg 460w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-in-Oh-Mary-pto-Evan-Zimmerman-for-MurphyMade-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-in-Oh-Mary-pto-Evan-Zimmerman-for-MurphyMade-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-in-Oh-Mary-pto-Evan-Zimmerman-for-MurphyMade-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-in-Oh-Mary-pto-Evan-Zimmerman-for-MurphyMade.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michael Urie in Oh, Mary!. Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>For his acclaimed work Off-Broadway, Urie has won an Obie, three Drama Desk, and two Lucille Lortel Awards. He most recently appeared Off-Broadway as William Shakespeare in <em>Jane Anger<\/em>, played more than six hundred performances in the solo comedy&nbsp;<em>Buyer &amp; Cellar<\/em>, and at the beginning of 2020, during the early days of the Covid pandemic, put on a livestream performance of the play from his living room, raising nearly $300,000 for <a href=\"https:\/\/broadwaycares.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Broadway Cares\/Equity Fights AIDS<\/strong><\/a>. His other acclaimed Broadway credits include the revival of the Monty Python musical comedy&nbsp;<em>Spamalot, Chicken &amp; Biscuits<\/em>, the Tony-nominated revival of&nbsp;<em>Torch Song<\/em>, <em>Grand Horizons<\/em>, and the revival of&nbsp;<em>How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying<\/em>. In addition to his acting, he directed&nbsp;<em>Bright Colors and Bold Patterns<\/em>&nbsp;and produced <em>Happy Birthday Doug,<\/em>&nbsp;both written and performed by Drew Droege and captured for BroadwayHD, and is the co-founder of <em>Pride Plays<\/em>, which celebrates and elevates LGBTQIA+ voices in the theater.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urie, a longtime artistic collaborator of Red Bull Theater, will soon take the stage as the titular lead in the company\u2019s limited Off-Broadway engagement of a powerful new version of Shakespeare\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redbulltheater.com\/richard-the-second\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Richard II<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, adapted and directed by Craig Baldwin and set in 1980s Manhattan. Performances are scheduled to begin on Tuesday October 28, with opening night set for Monday, November 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While preparing for his upcoming role, Michael graciously made time in his non-stop schedule to answer our quick questions about himself and his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.<strong> What is it about Shakespeare?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael: &nbsp;<\/strong>400 years ago, he wrote about us. Sure, he wrote about wood nymphs and ghosts and English Kings and Roman Emperors, but inside all of those plays are characters who tick the way we tick. His characters may have bigger problems than we have, and they may not talk like we talk &#8211; but we are made of the same stuff and at our core have the same humanity. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. What do you find most relatable about your character?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard and I are both lousy with money.<strong> &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. What three emotions do you feel when you first step onto the stage?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Euphoria, comfort, anticipation.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-pto-Rebecca-J-Michelson-307x460.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-377179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-pto-Rebecca-J-Michelson-307x460.jpg 307w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-pto-Rebecca-J-Michelson-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-pto-Rebecca-J-Michelson.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michael Urie. Photo by Rebecca J Michelson.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>4. What\u2019s the most fabulous thing about performing live?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surprise; the audience does not know what we\u2019re about to do. Even if they think they do or have seen it before, they can never know quite how this performance will go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5. What\u2019s the most memorable reaction you\u2019ve ever gotten from an audience member?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reactions we get in <em>Oh, Mary!<\/em> are chock full of that kind of giddy surprise, the roar of laughter at something they just did not see coming. But, the best was probably when I was in <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> at the Folger (circa 2005, I think). We were doing a very cool version, messy, with a modern sensibility, and playing it very lightly until it got violent. I was Mercutio and got lots of laughs, and after the fight with Tybalt when I am wounded, we really played it off as a scratch that very suddenly turned bad and I bled out and died quickly. It went from raucous fun to horrible tragedy in a matter of seconds &#8211; super thrilling. We did some student matinees for local high schoolers, and I\u2019ll never forget a performance where we had them in the palm of our hands &#8211; laughing and squealing and cheering &#8211; and then when I died . . . I swear they didn\u2019t know it was coming. They freaked out, devastated. That was awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6. Which do you find more challenging, stage or screen, drama or comedy?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doing drama on camera is probably the most challenging for me because you\u2019re very often not in control of the environment and don\u2019t get much, if any, rehearsal, and I find authentically showing pain or sadness for the camera (which doesn\u2019t lie) takes a lot of focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7. What\u2019s your first creative memory?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was nine years old, Tim Burton\u2019s <em>Batman<\/em> came out and blew my mind. At that point, the campy old 1960s <em>Batman<\/em> was playing regularly on TV (Pow! Zoom!) and I loved it. I also loved <em>Pee Wee\u2019s Big Adventure<\/em> and <em>Beetlejuice<\/em> (both by Burton). In <em>Batman<\/em>, here was Michael Keaton (aka Beetlejuice!) in a movie directed by <em>Beetlejuice<\/em> and <em>Pee Wee<\/em> director &#8211; and none of these projects were remotely similar (sure, you could argue commonalities but still!). I was nine and suddenly understood versatility and knew that\u2019s what I wanted to do. It didn\u2019t hurt that my dad looked like Jack Nicholson, who played The Joker. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8. Who\u2019s been the biggest inspiration in your career?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gosh, that\u2019s tough . . . I mean the aforementioned Tim Burton certainly jumpstarted my early ambitions, and I would still watch Keaton and Nicholson do anything . . . But credit for credit, milestone for milestone, Kevin Kline has to be the actor I\u2019ve most admired and hoped to emulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9. Is there a dream role or show you\u2019d like to play in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, Richard was certainly on that bucket list. There are lots of Shakespeare roles I still wanna tackle (Leontes, Bottom, Malvolio, Benedict). Getting to do a new hit (and queer) comedy on Broadway like <em>Oh, Mary!<\/em> is something I would love to do again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10. What three things do you always have in your dressing room?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A record player and selection of LPs, a table runner my mom made, and Celsius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11. What three things do you always carry with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Listerine strips\/spray, extra contact lenses, and deodorant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>12. What three words would you use to describe yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucky, curious, relentless.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-pto-Dan-Prakopcyk-368x460.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-377120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-pto-Dan-Prakopcyk-368x460.jpg 368w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-pto-Dan-Prakopcyk-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Urie-pto-Dan-Prakopcyk.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michael Urie. Photo by Dan Prakopcyk.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>13. What do you do for fun when you\u2019re not working?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work is fun! But Ryan [Spahn, Michael\u2019s partner] and I love to go to special \u201csight unseen\u201d movies at AMC where we have no idea what movie we\u2019re seeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>14. What do you love most about NYC?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to be bored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>15. What\u2019s the best thing about being famous?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OMG, haha! When I moved to LA to start work on <em>Ugly Betty<\/em>, I had no car and no money. A car dealership laughed at me when I tried to buy a car, so I asked them to go to ABC.com\/uglybetty and I promised that I was the gay guy standing next to Vanessa Williams. And I got financing! In work, it\u2019s being able to skip some of the crappy steps you have to climb as an actor. Usually if I\u2019m up for a job, I\u2019m already vetted and I\u2019m REALLY in consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thanks, Michael, for sharing a fabulous 15 minutes with us; I can\u2019t wait to see you in <em>Richard II<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RICHARD-II-promo-image-pto-Andrew-Zuckerman-460x259.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-377107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RICHARD-II-promo-image-pto-Andrew-Zuckerman-460x259.png 460w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RICHARD-II-promo-image-pto-Andrew-Zuckerman-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RICHARD-II-promo-image-pto-Andrew-Zuckerman-696x392.png 696w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RICHARD-II-promo-image-pto-Andrew-Zuckerman.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Andrew Zuckerman.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redbulltheater.com\/richard-the-second\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Richard II<\/em><\/strong><\/a> plays Tuesday, October 28-Sunday, November 30, 2025, at Red Bull Theatre, performing at the Astor Place Theatre, 434 Lafayette Street, NYC. For tickets (starting at $49), go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/richard-ii-tickets\/artist\/1133378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmy-nominated actor, producer, director, and host Michael Urie is sure to enjoy a never-ending run on his proverbial 15 minutes of fame, with his ever-flourishing work on stage, screen, and behind-the-scenes. On Broadway, Urie is currently appearing in&nbsp;Oh, Mary! 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