Michael Tylo
Assistant Professor of
Film and Theatre
Phone: (702) 895-3666
Office: CEB-164
michael.tylo@unlv.edu

Michael Tylo comes to UNLV after a 30+ year career as a professional actor, director and producer. Classically trained, he received his MFA in acting from Wayne State University. Michael has worked on Broadway, television, and film. His stage credits include seasons at The Long Wharf Theatre, The Alley Theatre, The Missouri Repertory, and The Meadowbrook Theatre as well as performing at The Roundabout Theatre and The Louise Lortel Theatre both in New York City. He worked with many well known directors such as Edward Gilbert, Douglas Seale, Terry Kilburn, John Reich, Cyril Ritchard, and Richard Chamberlain.

A chance meeting with the late Sir Tyrone Guthrie led to a summer in Ireland, where he worked with Guthrie as the later mounted a production of Oedipus for a tour in Australia. From that experience Tylo eventually went on to produce shows Off-Broadway including Vikings by Steve Metcalf at The Manhattan Theatre Club. As a founding board member of The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Tylo has produced as well as acted in a number of their productions. He won critical acclaim as Iago in Othello and as King Henry IV Part I. For the past three years, Tylo has appeared at he Nevada Conservatory theatre. His night time television credits include Lonesome Dove with Robert Duval, Gabriel’s Fire with James Earl Jones, and as the Alcalde in The New Adventures of Zorro. Other credits include feature roles on Murder She Wrote, Even Stevens, and Perry Mason. He worked 18 years on daytime television on Guiding Light, All My Children, General Hospital, and The Young and Restless; all contract roles. A former student of Uta Hagen, he currently studies with Ivana Chubbuck in Los Angles.