Born in Trinidad, Michael Rogers began his career as an actor and
director with the Everyman Company in Brooklyn. He also spent five
years teaching acting and playwriting in Harlem.
Rogers received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama shortly before
being cast in The Mosquito Coast as Francis Lungley, a local man who
befriends Allie (played by Harrison Ford).
Michael Rogers is a founding member of La Compagnia De' Colombari and
has appeared in seven productions for Theatre for a New Audience. He
has also appeared on Broadway in August Wilson's play Joe Turner's Come
and Gone. Rogers is story editor for Soho Films US.