Michael
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MICHAEL J. ARNDT, Member of the Board
Michael was drafted in to the U.S. Army in 1969. He served in a reconnaissance platoon with the First Cavalry Division in 1969-70 with nearly 40 combat assaults by helicopter and participated in a significant number of firefights near the Cambodian border. After his tour in Vietnam, he served with the Berlin Brigade in Berlin Germany.
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Michael has been a Professor of Theatre Arts at California Lutheran University for the past thirty-five years. He has served as chair of his department, Chair of the Faculty, and currently is serving as Division Coordinator for the Creative Arts Division. He is a founding member of the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company and has served as the company's Artistic Director for the past 20 years. Michael holds a B.A in Speech and Drama from Augsburg College and a M.F.A. In Theatre Arts (Directing) from the University of Minnesota.
With the help of the Military Order of the World Wars and the Military Order of the Purple Heart, he began a project of collecting video stories from combat veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He compiled and edited the stories into a multimedia play entitled “Under Fire: Stories of Combat Veterans Across Generations”.
Michael was drafted in to the U.S. Army in 1969. He served in a reconnaissance platoon with the First Cavalry Division in 1969-70 with nearly 40 combat assaults by helicopter and participated in a significant number of firefights near the Cambodian border. After his tour in Vietnam, he served with the Berlin Brigade in Berlin Germany.
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Michael has been a Professor of Theatre Arts at California Lutheran University for the past thirty-five years. He has served as chair of his department, Chair of the Faculty, and currently is serving as Division Coordinator for the Creative Arts Division. He is a founding member of the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company and has served as the company's Artistic Director for the past 20 years. Michael holds a B.A in Speech and Drama from Augsburg College and a M.F.A. In Theatre Arts (Directing) from the University of Minnesota.
With the help of the Military Order of the World Wars and the Military Order of the Purple Heart, he began a project of collecting video stories from combat veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He compiled and edited the stories into a multimedia play entitled “Under Fire: Stories of Combat Veterans Across Generations”.
