She holds an MFA in Drama from The Juilliard School (Group 49), a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and a certificate in Shakespeare Performance from RADA. Mary Cavett (she/her/hers) is a New York based actor, dancer and collaborator. She wrote, directed, and produced the short film “The Snakes” that premiered at the Pan African Film Festival. Film credits: “Ovum” “Ambition’s Debt” “Death of a Prince” “Spinning Into Butter”. She has had appearances on “Manifest” “Claws” “Homeland” “Madam Secretary”.

On screen, she has had recurring roles on “Power Book II: Ghost” (Starz) and “Luke Cage” (Netflix). Regional credits: Top Girls (ACT) The Wanderers (Old Globe) Richard and Jane and Dick and Sally (Baltimore Center Stage) King Charles III (ACT, Seattle Rep, Shakespeare Theater) Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare) Tartuffe (McCarter/ Yale Rep) Hamlet (Shakespeare Theater) Winter’s Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac (Oregon Shakespeare Festival).

Broadway/Off-Broadway/International theater credits include: A Raisin in the Sun (Broadway) Hurricane Diane (NYTW) Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Public Theater) A Kid Like Jake (LCT3) As You Like It, The Tempest (BAM/Old Vic – The Bridge Project) Much Ado About Nothing (Theater for a New Audience) Measure for Measure (Epic Theatre Ensemble) The Changeling (Red Bull) Uncle Vanya (Pearl) The Sentinels (59e59) Start Up (German Theater Abroad). She hails from Charleston, SC and is a proud summa cum laude graduate of the SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory.

Michelle is an actress, filmmaker, and teaching artist based in Brooklyn.

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