Michael p moran biography for kids

American actor and playwright

For other people named Michael Moran, see Michael Moran (disambiguation).

Michael Patrick Moran (February 8, 1944 – February 4, 2004)^[1] was an American actor and playwright.

Life and career

Moran was born in Yuba City, California, but his family moved frequently because his father was a United States Army officer. While his family was living in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, he graduated in 1962 from Passaic Valley Regional High School in Little Falls. ^[2] While he was a student there, he designed and supervised construction of an elaborate set for a benefit production of Robert Merrill's musical Take Me Along. He gained some of his first experience under Gilbert Rathbun in the theater program at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J. - though he was not a student there - and at the Theater on the Mall in Paramus, where he worked with director Robert Ludlum, who had not yet launched his career as