Michael Arden

Growing up in Midland, Texas, he was active in the Pickwick Players, Midland Community Theatre\'s youth performing company. He was a student at Trinity School, a college preparatory school in Midland. A Presidential Scholar in the arts, he received a scholarship to Interlochen Arts Academy as a theatre student, where he graduated in 2001. He was accepted on a full scholarship to the Juilliard School, where he was in the Drama Division\'s Group 34 (2001–2005). He left Juilliard in 2003 to join the Broadway revival company of the musical Big River.\n', '

Arden made his Broadway debut as Tom Sawyer in the 2003 Roundabout and Deaf West revival of Big River. He also starred opposite John Hill in the 2004 off-Broadway show Bare, a Pop Opera. In Summer 2005, he played Nick, a sexually promiscuous gay man in love with a shark, in Adam Bock\'s surreal play Swimming in the Shallows at New York\'s…