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John-Michael Lyles is a Harlem-based, Texas-raised, multi-hyphenate creative. As an actor, he’s been seen in: A Strange Loop (Woolly Mammoth Theatre and Playwright's Horizons), This Ain't No Disco (Atlantic), Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street), The Flick (Barrow Street), Brooklynite (Vineyard), Big River (Encores!), 1776 (Encores!), The Art of Falling (Second City/Hubbard Street) & Choir Boy (Guthrie). TV credits include: The Other Two, Chicago PD, NCIS: New Orleans, & The OA. Film: Blind.  As a writer, he’s co-writing a new musical with David Gomez, Shoot for the Moon, with developmental support from the Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellows class of ’21, Musical Theater Factory’s 2nd MAKERS Cohort & the ’21 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. He wrote additional music for the Second Stage production of Young Jean Lee’s We’re Gonna Die. He is currently writing a new musical with support from 5th Avenue Theater’s First Draft: Raise Your Voice commission program.