Michael McCorry Rose

Michael recently wrapped production on Disney’s upcoming live action film Disenchanted starring Amy Adams and Maya Rudolph, directed by Adam Shankman. Prior to that he starred in Daniel Levine’s film adaptation of Snapshots, which recently received a 2021 Grammy Nomination for Best Musical Theater Album. On Broadway he’s appeared in the Tony Award winning musical A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder, Wicked and the First National Tour of Anastasia.

In New York, Michael has appeared in concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, Symphony Space, Birdland, Green Room 42 and Feinstein’s/54 Below.

He regularly appears in concert with his long-time partner Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell, Pippin) and one of their concerts starring Scott Coulter and Debbie Gravitte was filmed for PBS’s Great American Songbook Concert Series at NJPAC, aired in the summer of 2016 and was nominated for a 2017 Regional Emmy Award.

Michael has performed with symphonies and concert orchestras across the United States and internationally he’s performed in concert at the Adelaide Music Festival in Australia, for the U.S. State Department in Nairobi, Kenya and in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

His theatrical credits include roles at regional theaters such as The Paper Mill Playhouse, Williamstown Theater Festival, Yale Repertory Theater, Primary Stages, Capital Repertory Theater and Project Shaw in New York City.

Originally from San Diego, he holds a B.A. in Mass Communication Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he appeared in Carol Burnett’s directorial debut of Once Upon A Mattress. He studies at the Jen Waldman Studios and The Actor’s Gym in New York.