| Michael Prichard has played several thousand characters during his career. While he has been seen performing over 100 of them in theater and film, Michael is primarily heard - having recorded over 430 full-length books. During his career as a one-man repertory company, he's recorded many series with running characters, including the complete Travis McGee adventures by John D. MacDonald, the complete Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout, the Dirk Pitt adventures by Clive Cussler and more than a dozen other series by masters of suspense ranging from Georges Simenon and Dashiell Hammett to Robert B. Parker and Tom Clancy -- as well as series by greats like Mark Twain, Herman Wouk, John Cheever, and John Updike. He's won Earphones Awards for three of his non-fiction recordings. SmartMoney Magazine named him one of the Top Ten Golden Voices, an asset he developed as a boy singing at the wheel of a tractor on his family's farm. Jesuits taught him Latin, Greek, and French. He earned an M.F.A. in theatre from the University of Southern California. In addition to narrating, he works at the Pasadena Playhouse. |