Michael Lange made his stage debut re-enacting two of Malcolm X's most timeless speeches: 'Message to the Grassroots' and 'The Ballot or The Bullet.' He regularly performs in Jeff Stetson's award-winning play 'The Meeting', a fictitious story about a secreted get-together between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.  Since 1990, he has captured audiences as a Malcolm X delineator. Mr. Lange is recipient of two ARTY awards for Best Play and Best Director for “The Old Settler” respectively. He also directed Larry Americ Allen's tragic-comedy 'Shakespeare's Lost Masterpiece'. Lange is the director of three feature films, 'Africa Rise', 'Stains: Life After Incarceration', and 'Soldier of Righteousness'. As a playwright, he has penned two stage plays: 'Prophet Nat' and 'Death Takes A Stand'. In 2003, Mr. Lange won an Artie Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in 'Ceremonies In Dark Old Men'. Since 1998, Mr. Lange has been on the faculty at San Jose State University, where he teaches an advanced writing and research class (in the Health Science and Recreation Department) for juniors and seniors as they prepare to present thesis statements, needed to graduate from SJSU. Mr. Lange currently resides in Oakland, CA.