June 13,
2001
Michael
C. Hall '93 Cast in
New
HBO Series
RICHMOND,
Indiana -- Earlham graduate Michael C. Hall has climbed the ladder
of success to
reach "Six Feet Under," a new HBO series.
Hall,
a member of Earlham's class of 1993, plays David, a closeted gay
man who swallows his resentment over staying in the Pasadena family's
funeral
business after his father's death. The show revolves around the
lives and lies of Hall's character, his brother, sister and mother.
The
dark-humored drama began June 3rd and airs on HBO at 10 p.m. Sundays.
The series' creator is Alan Ball, whose 1999 film, "American
Beauty", won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
The
Chicago Tribune hails it as "the next great television
series,"
while Newsweek described the series as "funny, warm,
off-beat."
Hall,
a native of North Carolina, co-stars with Peter Krause, Frances
Convoy, Lauren Ambrose, Rachel Griffiths, Freddy Rodriguez and Richard
Jenkins.
Since
leaving Earlham, Hall received a Master of Fine Arts in acting
from New York University and has starred in nearly a dozen major
off-Broadway plays including "Macbeth" for the New York
Shakespeare Festival.
His
most recent performance was the emcee in "Cabaret," a
role he
transferred from Wilkinson Theatre to Broadway. Earlham audiences
were dazzled
by Hall's spring '93 performance, which left many sure he was destined
for bigger things.
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