Mike Nyman

Mike Nyman (aka Michael Robert Nyman or Michael Nyman) has been an actor since the age of twenty-two. The athletic Long Beach, Ca. native is familiar with all aspects of acting...film, television, theatre, improv, background work, producing, directing, and casting. In his acting he ranges from handsome leading man to extreme character actor. He has studied under the late character actor/coach Cliff Osmond, the late character actor/coach Jeff Conaway, character actor/coach Doug Warhit, Yale Theatre Arts graduate/coach Gregory Berger-Sobeck ("The Berg"), and Circus Theatricals director Jack Stehlin. Mike performed with The Zeitgeist Theatre Company for five years, then formed The First Stage Alert Theatre Company with friend and fellow actor Lonnie Schuyler. He produced the 35mm feature film "Bottom Feeders"(1997) with Lonnie who wrote and directed the film. They used most of the actors from First Stage Alert to be in the film. Mike was also featured in the Johnny Depp film "Blow", but like Kevin Costner in "The Big Chill", ended up on the cutting room floor. Due to the pandemic and the now widespread use of self-tape auditions, he has been more active and booking more work on the acting scene. He has become a favorite of several commercial casting directors and featured in several commercials including Massage Envy, Liquid Death/Me Undies and Consumer Cellular, has three films on the festival circuit right now including "Bare Knuckle Girl" as an a**hole trucker that gets in a big parking lot brawl, Hank, the local sheriff on the trail of bank robbers in his town in "St. George" and as The Old Man who is a pool shark at a local bar in the movie "Do Right Man". He is also on Netflix in the sketch comedy favorite "I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson" in a game show as Metaloid Maniac, in a scene with Sam Richardson, and as an FBI Agent in the docudrama series "Meltdown: Three Mile Island".