Michael Portnoy

Michael Portnoy is an American multimedia artist, choreographer, musician and actor. He calls himself a "Director of Behavior". Portnoy was born in Washington, D.C. and studied comparative literature and creative writing at Vassar College and theater at the National Theater Institute. After moving to New York City, he formed several short lived experimental theater groups and then began concentrating on solo performance. His early performance works, such as Gymnastics and Schizophrenia, and 5teen3sy: Kicking Games of Lip, were antic and unpredictable, and characterized by dense language play, song and movement fragments and rapid transformations of character. In the mid '90s, Portnoy started to perform in venues associated with the new...