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MICHAEL URIE was seen last season in back to back New York theatre productions beginning with the Public Theater’s revival of Tony Kushner’s  A Bright Room Called Day and followed by the Broadway premiere of Bess Wohl’s Grand Horizons. Prior to that, he starred in the Tony Award nominated Broadway revival of Harvey Fierstein Torch Song, following his critically acclaimed performance in the off-Broadway production at Second Stage, earning Lucille Lortel Award and Drama League Award nominations. Michael originated the role of Alex More in Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar Off-Broadway, on tour, and in London, for which he received the Drama Desk Award, Clarence Derwent Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, LA Drama Critics Award and nominations for the Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Awards. 

More New York theatre credits include How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( Broadway), The Government Inspector (Red Bull, Drama League, OCC nominations), Shows For Days (LCT), Homos, Or Everyone In America (Obie Award), The Cherry Orchard (CSC), Angels in America (Signature), The Temperamentals (Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk and Theatre World awards, Drama League nomination), The Revenger’s Tragedy (Red Bull), and Another Vermeer (HB Playwrights). 

Regionally, Urie has worked for The Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company (Wash. DC), Two River, The Old Globe, Vineyard Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Folger Shakespeare, Barrington Stage, Hyde Park (Austin), and The Blank (L.A.). Film: He’s Way More Famous Than You (also directed), Thank You for Judging (co-director/exec. producer), Beverly Hills Chihuahua, WTC View, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, The Decoy Bride, Petunia, Such Good People, The Hyperglot (director), and Grantham & Rose (exec. producer). TV: Gavin Sinclair on Modern Family, Younger, The Good Fight, The Good Wife, Hot in Cleveland, Workaholics, Partners and Marc St. James on Ugly Betty. He hosted four seasons of Logo’s Cocktails And Classics. Web series: “What’s Your Emergency” (director). Training: Juilliard.

DREW DROEGE is best known for his online parody videos of downtown indie darling Chloë Sevigny, featured in Entertainment Weekly, The Advocate, TimeOut New York, OUT magazine's Out 100, Marc Jacobs’ 2016 Spring campaign, and HBO's Wigstock documentary, "Wig". 

He played Mr. Dennis, the drama teacher, on Paramount Network's "Heathers" and has recurred on "Search Party", "Bob's Burgers", "Drunk History", "Gloop World", "IdiotSitter", "Key and Peele", "Comedy Bang! Bang!", and Logo's "Cocktails And Classics". Other TV credits include "Bless The Harts", "Q-Force", "Now Apocalypse", "Teachers", "Transparent,” "Life In Pieces", "Nobodies", "Bajillion Dollar Properties", “2 Broke Girls,” “House Of Lies,” “Kroll Show,” “New Girl,” “Happy Endings,” and “How I Met Your Mother". He is also the voice of Pia, one of the villains, on the reboot of the popular video game, "Battletoads". He's appeared in the films "El Tonto", "The Never List", "Ideal Home", "The 4th", "The Circle", "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse", "You’re Killing Me", and "Eating Out: Drama Camp". Web series: "The Disgustings", "Eastsiders", "#Adulting" (Indie Series Award, Best Guest Actor), "Not Looking", "Matt & Dan", "GoGo Boy Interrupted", "Planet Unicorn". He also wrote for Netflix's "AJ And The Queen" and "Big Mouth".

Drew has written and performed five solo shows, including "Happy Birthday Doug" (Off-Broadway, Soho Playhouse 2020, directed by Tom DeTrinis), "Bright Colors And Bold Patterns" (Off-Broadway, Soho Playhouse 2017-18, directed by Michael Urie), "Bad Education", "Drugs!", and "Good Evening America". He received the Outstanding Performance award at Outfest Los Angeles in 2018 for the BroadwayHD capture of "Bright Colors And Bold Patterns" (available to watch on broadwayhd.com).

He is an alum of The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade theaters in Los Angeles, where he performs regularly. Other LA theatre credits include Charles Busch's "Die, Mommie, Die!", Justin Sayre's "Ravenswood Manor", Matt Wilkas & Mark Setlock's "Born To Win", Julie Brown's "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Musical", long-running drag "The Golden Girlz", and musical parodies of "Troop Beverly Hills" and "The Devil Wears Prada". He hosted two podcasts, "Glitter in the Garbage" for EarWolf and “Drew Droege’s Minor Revelations”, which will be coming back soon.