Michael Cerveris is a two-time Tony Award-winning stage and screen actor and musician, as well as a dedicated advocate for arts, education and numerous humanitarian causes. He has performed in many stage musicals and plays, including several Stephen Sondheim musicals: Assassins, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Road Show, and Passion. In 2004, Cerveris won the Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Assassins as John Wilkes Booth. In 2015, he won his second Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical for Fun Home as Bruce Bechdel.

Cerveris appears in Steven Soderbergh’s Mosaic on HBO, and has created such iconic roles as September the Observer in five seasons of JJ Abrams’ Fringe, fan favorite Professor Pyg on FOX’s Gotham, Ramses IV in Amazon’s The Tick, State’s Attorney James Castro on CBS’ The Good Wife, and Marvin Frey in three seasons of HBO’s Treme.

In addition to his professional work, Cerveris devotes much of his time to many social causes close to his heart. For each of the last 13 years, he has participated in the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Walk, raising over $160,000 to date. He is an active and longtime supporter of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Actors Fund. Cerveris performs often in support of humanitarian causes, including From Broadway With Love: A Benefit for Sandy Hook and the What The World Needs Now recording and concert for victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. He has organized several other benefit concerts over the years, including Take Me Home – a concert for West Virginia, which raised funds and awareness for relief efforts following the floods of 2016.

Cerveris helped organize and perform at the grand reopening of New Orleans’ majestic Saenger Theatre—appearing with Kristin Chenoweth and Mayor Mitch Landrieu—and received the Mayor’s Key to the City for his contributions.

Michael Cerveris receives the 2018 Americans for the Arts and The United States Conference of Mayors Citizen Artist Award.