Mike Dreyden

Mike Dreyden born Michael A. Figueroa was raised in the Greenpoint and Williamsburg neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. His interest in acting began with his love of 1970s television shows like the Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, Man from Atlantis and 1980s sitcoms Family Ties, Growing Pains and Who's the Boss? He got his start in theater with home training with his uncle Pablo Figueroa, an independent film maker. He was later enrolled at HB Studio where he studied Scene Study and Improv under Uta Hagen and Trudy Steible respectively. Over the years, Mike has appeared in a number of Off-Off Broadway productions, independent and adult films, mostly recently as Larry in Goodby Seventies, Steve in Available Light and the upcoming This Side of Heaven film by Todd Verow. As a member of Mirror Repertory Company Mike honed his skills with acclaimed Broadway veteran Sabra Jones-McAteer and with Alan Gordon of the Alan Gordon Studio in Greenwich Village and other workshops. You can see Mike in the Child of the 70s web series by Michael Vaccaro and his own web series LAST CALL.