After graduating from Juilliard, Michael Braugher made his Broadway debut in 2021 in "To Kill a Mockingbird." He also participated in the Williamstown Theater Festival, tackling central roles in "Artney Jackson" and "Son Come Home." Michael's first major performance outside the theater came in 2022, with his appearance in "The Gilded Age" Season 2. He portrayed Booker T. Washington, who builds a school in Tuskegee, Alabama, and invites the main character to tour it. Michael was featured in two episodes and starred alongside Laura Benanti and Robert Sean Leonard.
Impressively, Michael's expanding acting career earned him the John Houseman Award for Excellence in Classical Theater, and he shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. In 2023, the young up-and-comer took on a new dramatic role, Hamlet himself, for Minnesota's Guthrie Theater. Braugher, the sixth Hamlet in Guthrie Theater's history, spoke to the Star Tribune about his approach to the character: "I want the audience to come away having been moved by whatever my version and our cast's version and Joe Haj, the director's version, of this story is, as opposed to the lore."
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