Michael Vega
Michael Vega (born September 4, 1969 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American actor. He grew up in central New Jersey and attended Trenton State College where he studied theatre and communications. After spending several years in New York City, Vega moved in 2002 to the San Francisco Bay Area and has enjoyed great success in theatre, including appearances in "Schoenberg" by John Fisher, "Bent" by Martin Sherman, and "A Queer Carol" by Joe Godfrey, all at Theater Rhinoceros in San Francisco, and "The Gravedigger's Tango" by Ian Walker at the Phoenix Theater in San Francisco. Vega  starred as Ishi in a play based on Ishi's life presented July 3–27, 2008, at Theatre Rhinoceros. Written by the theater's artistic director, John Fisher, the play addresses many angles of the Ishi story. The "San Francisco Chronicle" said the work "is a fierce dramatic indictment of the ugliest side of California history". In 2008, he starred in his first feature film "Beatific Vision", co-starring Marianne Shine.