Michael O. Smith’s 30 year career includes such diverse stage credits as: The Immigrant, Sugar Babies, Deathtrap, and Greater Tuna.  He premiered his one man show of Theodore Roosevelt for the Florida Playwrights Festival at Florida Studio Theatre, where he also won all three Sarasota Critic’s Awards for his portrayal of Herman Goering in 2: Goering at Nuremberg.  Michael has appeared on Evening Shade, Murder She Wrote, The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives and was a series regular on ABC’s B. L.  Stryker, as police Chief  McGee with Burt Reynolds.  Broadway and touring credits include: Dracula, The Elephant Man, Amadeus, 1776, and Off -Broadway, as a founding member of Strasberg’s Mirror Repertory with Geraldine Page and Sabra Jones. His numerous acting awards include the Florida Critics “Carbonell” Award as Tevye in the Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theater production of Fiddler on the Roof, and the Curtain Up Award for Best Actor in The Last Night of Ballyhoo. He dedicates The Bully Pulpit to the memory of his dear friend, actor Brian Keith, who played TR in the film The Wind and The Lion. Mr. Smith has received critical acclaim as an actor and director. He has appeared with such notables as; Ethel Merman, Brian Keith, Raul Julia, Florence Henderson, Jeremy Brett, Jim Nabors, Dorothy Lamour, Abe Vigoda,  Geraldine Page, Ricardo Montalban, Kenny Rodgers, Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Ossie Davis, and many more.   Other credits include Shoot the Picture with Roy Schieder, Death Dreams with Christopher Reeves, The Julie Andrews Show, Murder She Wrote, Super Force, Days of our Lives and The Young and The Restless.