Michael Halberstam

Michael Halberstam is the co-founder of Writers Theatre, a theatre company dedicated to the world and the artist located on the North Shore of Chicago. He has directed over 35 productions for the company, including Not About Heroes (starring Nicholas Pennell), Private Lives, Look Back in Anger, Candida, The Father, Crime and Punishment, Benefactors, Seagull, The Duchess of Malfi, Othello, The Savannah Disputation, the world premiere musical A Minister's Wife, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, She Loves Me, The Real Thing, Hamlet, Sweet Charity, Days Like Today, Isaac's Eye, Arcadia, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody (which he co-directed with Stuart Carden) and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (which he co-adapted and directed with Scott Parkinson. Most recently he directed The Importance of Being Earnest.