Michelle Shay

Perhaps best known for her Tony Award-nominated performance as Louise in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, Shay has worked off-Broadway, in regional theater, and on television.

In addition, she has taught at the American Conservatory Theater, the Actors Theater of Louisville, Cal Arts, and, currently, at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Columbia University.

Shay was honored with a Fox Foundation grant to study the connection between acting and the healing arts. She is a contributor to the development of new plays for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Playwright’s Conference.

In the fall of 2017, she directed John Henry Redwood’s The Old Settler at the Billie Holiday Theater.