Born and raised in the East Bay, actor and director Michael Socrates Moran is the Executive Director and co-founder of the award-winning Oakland-based Ubuntu Theater Project.
Following his BFA in acting from Boston University, Moran was one of two students accepted into the world-renowned MFA Directing program at UC San Diego in 2013. During this time, he founded the Ubuntu Theater Project. In its inaugural year, with four shows in four different sites across the East Bay, the Ubuntu Theater Project began its mission to produce exquisite theatrical experiences that inspire compassion and forge bonds across socio-economic and racial barriers. Moran has grown the organization and budget to twenty times its original size in five years and launched a radical pay-what-you-can model so nobody is turned away for lack of funds.
The San Francisco Chronicle hails the Ubuntu Theater Project as "one of the most exciting young theater companies in the Bay Area in recent years." The Free Audience puts Ubuntu Theater Project "at the top of the dynamism scale for most of the Bay Area and probably any other America city, too." The Ubuntu Theater Project is the winner of the Theatre Bay Area's Best Production in 2015, the San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Best Production in the East Bay in 2016, and SFBATCC winner for best overall production in the entire Bay Area in 2017.
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