Michael Clarke:
CLASS OF 1980
Tupelo High SchoolClass of 1980
Tupelo, OK
Michael's Story
Michael is in a relationship with Heather M Short. Michael's schools include Tupelo High School. Michael later attended Langston University (Theatre and Dramatic Arts, Broadcast Journalism and Mass Communications), East Central University (Speech Communication & Theatre Arts, Music and Foreign Languages), Michael works(e2d) at Hastings Entertainment (in Santa Fe, NM in 2003) and again in Ada, Oklahoma in 2004) none ya bees wax.
Music Michael likes includes Majic 95.5. Books Michael likes include The Two Babylons. Movies Michael likes include Die Hard, 2016: Obama's America, Star Trek - Horizon. TV shows Michael likes include Star Trek Continues, Gotham, BBC One.
One of Michael's favorite quotes is:""Allons-y!"".
More about Michael: immediately after high school he went to attend East Central State University. He suffered academic burnout and dropped out university in the Winter/Spring semester of 1983-84. After recovering with his parents in Comanche, Oklahoma he joined the United States Marine Corps in the month of December of 1984 had he completed his training, he would have left of Marines with the rank of First Lieutenant. But he suffered an injury to his back during physical training that left him with a chronic back injury, which went ignored until he finally left the Corps in April of 1985. After staying with his parents a few months and working as a temp at the Hallibuton main office in Duncan, Oklahoma, he went to the Guthrie Job Corps in Guthrie, Oklahoma where he underwent technical training in office clerical procedures and data entry. While in attendance at Job Corps, he rediscovered his love of theatre and in 1987 joined the original cast and crew of the Pollard Theatre. The Pollard Theatre is reknown as a major tourist attraction in Guthrie...Expand for more
, Oklahoma, and can boast of being Oklahoma's only year-round professional theatre. Having practically walked in off the street, Michael parlayed a walk-on part in the acting troupe's premiere production, the classic musical "Guys and Dolls" into a two and an half years long stint in professional theatre. While working ( albeit in a non-paid position in the Pollard Theatre's troupe, Michael used the stage name "Ralph Nicholls" and even received favorable reviews for a few of his supporting/character roles (most notably Mr Pinkus in "The Front Page" and Fleetfoot in "Little Mary Sunshine", and Tim, the Assistant Stage Manager, in the smash hit British farce, "Noises Off") Within the first six months of joining the Pollard Theatre, Michael became both the Assistant to the Production Coordinator, Donna J Dickson (who won a walk-on speaking role in the motion picture feature film, " Rainman") and the Assistant to the Technical Director, Lance Reese. After leaving the Pollard Theatre in the spring on 1989, Michael did a short stint as a circus roadie for The Allen Brothers Circus, then he travelled with the touring amusement show, Amusements of America. The first nine months he remained with Aof A he served as a "ride jock" on the Chance amusement ride, "Sea Dragon" after leaving the Sea Dragon he worked another four years as a highly successful games agent, during which time, in late 1994, he met actor Andy Garcia and one of the head writers of the television sci-fi series, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". After leaving Amusements of America, Michael worked in Hi-Tec Manufacturing, Inc. It was during his last year with Hi-Tec that he met the woman who was to become Michael's first wife, Star E. Juntunen, a woman of Finnish descent, just after New Years in 2001
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