Micah Stock ’11
Micah Stock ’11 is a Tony®-nominated actor, known for his debut on Broadway in the revival of Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play.
After a string of hit TV projects, Stock returns to Broadway this fall, along with costar Laurie Metcalf, to reprise his role in Little Bear Ridge Road. Originally performed with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Stock was hailed as “shockingly terrific” and “a revelation” by The Chicago Sun Times. Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale) wrote the stage play, and Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Wicked) directs.
Stock starred in the FX series Kindred, based on the Octavia E. Butler novel of the same name.
He appeared in the film Maggie Moore(s) (2023) opposite Jon Hamm and Tina Fey (and Oona Roche ’17) and starred in two seasons of Bonding on Netflix and The Right Stuff on Disney+.
He was featured in Showtime’s miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018), directed by Ben Stiller and based on the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape.
Stock was also cast in Amazon Studios’ star-studded romantic comedy Life Itself, (2018), as well as in the independent film Brittany Runs a Marathon, starring Jillian Bell.
Tony Nominated for Broadway Debut
Stock made his Broadway debut alongside the legendary actors Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Stockard Channing, and F. Murray Abraham, in It’s Only a Play, a performance that earned him a Tony® nomination in the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play—the only Tony nomination the play received.
At the time, Stock said, “It does feel pretty surreal to see myself on a poster alongside those names—actors to whom I’ve looked up for years. When I thought about what my career might look like three years out of Purchase…I just wanted to be WORKING. That’s gift enough in this profession.”
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Stock earned his Equity card when his professional career began six months after he graduated, under esteemed director Kip Fagan. “I gave a good audition, but I do think part of the reason I got the job was the working relationship Kip and I had built at Purchase,” Stock says.
Fagan had been a lecturer in dramatic writing and directed Stock and his student company in an evening of new plays by seniors in the dramatic writing program.
Fun Fact: Stock is ‘besties’ with fellow Purchase alum, Chris Perfetti ’11, who stars in Abbott Elementary. Check out their silly/serious conversation as they riff on Wordle, fame, first impressions at Purchase, and the trendy new term, “theater plays.”
Another Fun Fact: Stock was an NSYNC impersonator in the fifth grade.