Michael Hargrove movie list

MICHAEL HARGROVE, honored with the Black Theatre Alliance's Sidney Poitier Award in 2002 as Best Leading Actor in a Play for his role in "Will He Bop, Will He Drop" at Chicago's National Pastime Theater. Michael has also appeared in such National Pastime Theater productions as "Red Dog Moon," David Rabe's "The Orphan," "Yuba City," Kafka's "The Trial," "Servant of the People!! The Rise and Fall of Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party," "Possessed," Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" (as Mark Anthony) and Ionesco's "Rhinoceros." A mainstay on the Chicago theatre scene, Hargrove has also appeared in "Dark of the Moon" (Chi-Town Revelers) and two stagings at the Shattered Globe Theater - "In the Shadow of A Smile and "An Absurd Evening...The Lesson and Rats." The Birminham Alabama native has guest-starred on such locally-filmed TV series as "Chicago Fire," "Chicago P.D" and "Early Edition." His feature film work includes Gary Fleder's gridiron biopic, "The Express," "Psychic Crime Busters," "The Modern Myth," "Out-Takes," "Given Circumstances," "A Careless Kitchen," "An Abduction" and, notably, Tom Gustafson's LGBTQ fantasy, "Were the World Mine." The latter title earned Gustafson over a dozen film festival awards upon its 2008 release, most notably from the Florida, Nashville, Rhode Island, Ft. Worth Gay/Lesbian, Indianapolis LGBT, Inside Out Toronto LGBT, L.A. Outfest, Outflix, TWIST Seattle Queer Film and the Philadelphia, Tampa and Torino Gay/Lesbian festivals.