Michael Patrick Wiles is proud to join the team at the Performing Arts Studio for its inaugural Summer
Performing Arts Conservatory. For Performing Arts Studio, he has served as music director for YAGM
Charlie Brown and Urinetown. He is the co-founder and co-director of Center Repertory Company's
past Young Rep Musical Theater program and served on their faculty for over two decades. As an actor,
Wiles has appeared over 70 productions with the American Conservatory Theater, American Musical
Theater, Aurora Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, Capital Stage
Company, Magic Theater, Marin Shakespeare Company, Pacific Repertory Theater, SF Shakespeare
Festival, and Tacoma Actors Guild. Wiles has served as the Casting Director & Resident Music
Director for Berkeley Playhouse for the past eleven seasons. Music Directing credits there include JC
Superstar, The Sound of Music, Rent, Head Over Heels, Fun Home, Little Shop of Horrors, Mamma
Mia, Pippin (TBA Award nomination), Dreamgirls (TBA Award nomination), Grease, Sister Act,
Urinetown (TBA Award winner, BATCC Award nomination), Peter & the Starcatcher, The Addams
Family, Hairspray, and Avenue Q (TBA Award nomination). Other music directing credits include
work with Capital Stage Company, CCCT, Pacific Repertory Theater, SF Opera Guild, and San
Francisco Shakespeare Festival. BFA, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle.