Michael Boudewyns

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Occupation Actor, artist
Location Delaware, United States
Introduction

I'm a Delaware-based artist and actor performing with orchestras, museums and theatre companies. I'm committed to playful, inventive, entertaining storytelling.

Interests Shel Silverstein, Gustave Dore, Dr. Seuss, Joan Miró, Bill Watterson, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Charles Schulz, Edvard Münch, Keith Haring, Norman Rockwell, Charles Addams, m. c. escher, Jean de Brunhoff, Rene Magritte, Roy Lichtenstein, Berkeley Breathed, Edward Hopper, Georges Seurat, john kricfalusi, Garth Williams, Maurice Sendak, Arthur Rackham, Paul Signac, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Beatrix Potter, Bob Clampett, Crockett Johnson, Hieronymus Bosch, John Tenniel, Frank Schoonover, Maxfield Parrish, Salvador Dali, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, E. H. Shepherd, Vincent Van Gogh, Kevin Henkes, Ivan Albright, Grant Wood, Edward Gorey, David Macaulay, W. W. Denslow, Ivan Bilibin, Bill Wray, Frank Brangwyn, J.C. Leyendecker, Walt Kelly, Robert McKimson, Alec Guinness, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Bill Irwin, Robert Donat, Rossen Milanov, F.O.C. Darley, H.P. Lovecraft, L. Frank Baum, Gene Wilder, Chris Eliopoulos, Elio, Clayton Hanmer, CTON, Ian Dingman, Luke Ramsey, Ryan Kapp, Scott Rhodes, Walter Crane
Favorite Movies Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939), The Browning Variation (1951), Brief Encounter, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lady Killers (1955), Our Man from Havana (1959), Touch of Evil, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Up, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, Monsters Inc., Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sherlock Jr., The Navigator, The General, Steamboat Bill Jr., The Cameraman, Safety Last!, The Kid Brother, The Freshman (1925), Speedy, City Lights, Modern Times, Limelight, The Gold Rush, It's A Wonderful Life, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen, The Great Train Robbery (1903), Way Out West, Being There, The Music Box (1932), Ken Burns' Civil War, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where art Thou, This is Spinal Tap, Oliver Twist, Mary and Max, Scrooged, Back t the Future, Wall E, The Music Man, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Young at Heart, Ken Burns' Mark Twain, Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, Dr. Strangelove, Chinatown, Doctor Dolittle, Wily Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Producers (1968), Big, The Twelve Chairs, Ghostbusters, Shaun of the Dead, The Triplets of Belleville, Babe, Hobson's Choice, A Room with a View, Downton Abbey, Brazil, Big, The Young Victoria, Dr. Strangelove, Tootsie, Simon Schama: The Power of Art, Night of the Living Dead, The Guardsman (1931), A Might at the Opera, Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, The Seventh Seal, Vertigo, Un Chien Andalou, There Will Be Blood, Lawrence of Arabia, My Favorite Year
Favorite Music Scott Joplin, Artie Shaw, Danny Kaye, Randy Newman, Raymond Scott, Philadelphia Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Symphony in C, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Westchester Philharmonic, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Peter and the Wolf, The Story of Babar, Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham, Bethena, Toy Symphony, Prokofiev, Poulenc, Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, Yo Yo Ma, Hoagy Carmichael, Leroy Anderson, XTC, Elvis Costello, Robert Kapilow
Favorite Books A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Moby Dick, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, The Prince and the Pauper, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Inferno, A Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Watership Down, The Princess Bride, The Maltese Falcon, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree, The Little Prince, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, Yertle the Turtle, Charlotte's Web, Where the Wild Things Are, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, American Brutus, N.C. Wyeth, The Three Musketeers, Around the World in Eighty Days, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The House at Pooh Corner, Winnie-the-Pooh, Peter Pan, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Lookingglass, Harold and the Purple Caryon, The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Madeline, Good Night Moon, Esio Trot, Tom Chist and the Treasure Box, The Ghost of Captain Brand, Don Quixote, Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates