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Michael Benjamin Washington's credits include Mamma Mia! (original Broadway company), the 2005 revival of La Cage Aux Folles and Saturday Night (Second Stage). La Jolla Playhouse credits include The Wiz, Memphis, Letters to Obama and Blueprints to Freedom (which he also wrote). TV credits include 30 Rock, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Glee, Law & Order, The Jury and Hope and Faith, among others. Mr. Washington’s political drama, Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin, was developed at the McCarter Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse. The play also enjoyed sold out co-productions at La Jolla and Kansas City Repertory Theatre in 2015, earning him Outstanding New American Play Award by the Edgerton Foundation, the San Diego Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play. Film credits include Love and Other Drugs.