Michael Friedman has been the music director for Lysistrata, Marat/Sade, The Merchant of Venice and The Idiots Karamazov at the A.R.T. and for Elizabeth Swados's Cantata 2000 with the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club on the Loeb Stage. He was also music director or arranger for The Seagull and Cymbeline (NYSF/Public Theater), Fully Committed (Cherry Lane Theater and Regional), The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Subliminable Strategery (LaMama ETC). He has composed music for The Song of Songs (Greenwich Street Theater), Bloody Poetry (Synapse Theater), The Communist Dracula Pageant (Soho Rep), God Hates the Irish (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Winter's Tale, The Bluebird, A Servant of Two Masters, The Time of Your Life (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and the documentary film On Common Ground.
American Repertory Theatre