Michael McCobbNTC Faculty
Head of Voice and Speech

Mr. Cobb has worked as a theatre and performing artist for over 20 years, including appearances at Tony Award-winning Trinity Rep, where he was a member of the resident acting company under both Adrian Hall and Anne Bogart, at the Dallas Theatre Center, and on PBS, among many others. He has been directed by and acted opposite Academy Award nominees and Tony winners in large and small cast shows. Since moving to the area to serve as Head of Voice and Speech at the National Theatre Conservatory he has appeared in leading and featured roles in TheatreWorks’ double-bill of Hamlet and Antonio’s Revenge as well as the world premiere of Dar Al Harb, garnering nominations for Best Actor from the Pike’s Peak Arts Council and The Denver Post, which also recognized each production with a Special Achievement Ovation Award. He has directed, produced and performed in theatre and dance/theatre works both independently and for others, including a stint as Director/Executive Producer of the now Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre in Rhode Island, currently celebrating its 25th anniversary season, where he helped re-establish a resident company. For the Denver Center Theatre Company he has served as coach on Absurd Person Singular, Noises Off, Plainsong, Pride and Prejudice, King Lear, Measure for Measure, September Shoes, A Flea in Her Ear and A Christmas Carol. At American Repertory Theatre he coached under directors Robert Woodruff (Oedipus), Mark Wing-Davey (The Provok’d Wife), and Martha Clarke (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), as well as its co-production, with the Actors Theatre of Louisville and the 2005 Tony Award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune, of Moliere’s The Miser, adapted by David Ball and directed by Dominique Serrand. He has taught at the A.R.T/Moscow Art Theatre School Institute, the American Studio of the MXAT, Rhode Island College, Saint Lawrence University, and State University of New York at Potsdam. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, a Master of Arts in Theatre Studies from Brown University, and is a graduate of the Trinity Rep Conservatory.