Michael Bloom

Michael Bloom

Michael Bloom is a writer and director and the former artistic director of Cleveland Play House. In addition to Emma, his plays include The Fagin Effect (based on Oliver Twist) and adaptations of Less... Read more

Michael Bloom is a writer and director and the former artistic director of Cleveland Play House. In addition to Emma, his plays include The Fagin Effect (based on Oliver Twist) and adaptations of Lessing’s Nathan the Wise and Ostrovsky’s Artists and Admirers. His latest play is Christmas Freud, a holiday comedy based on an essay by David Rakoff. He is also the author of Thinking Like A Director, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.