Michel Altieri

After a career in musical theatre, straight plays, TV, and film in Italy and Europe, he is now primarily based in New York City where he continues to work and teach.

He is also well known for his long-time collaboration with Naples' historic Bellini Theatre as the company's resident young leading man, under the direction of Tato Russo.

After his debut in Rent, he went on to star in other musicals such as I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed, role of "Renzo") for three seasons, then in the role of "Dorian" in the original musical based on Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray for four seasons, next in Profondo Rosso (Deep Red), and originated the role of the "Beast" in the first ever Italian production of the Disney Broadway musical Beauty and the Beast, which during its year-long run in Milan broke box-office history for ticket sales.

He made his New York debut in the winter of 2010/2011 in the play Dracula as the title role, opposite George Hearn, Thora Birch, Timothy Jerome, John Buffalo Mailer, Jake Silbermann, and Emily Bridges, at the Little Shubert Theatre on Theatre Row.

[2] In 2011, he played Mammothland in Shawn Cody's The Water Dream, with Anthony Rapp, directed by Thomas Caruso at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre.