Michael Cristofer

Michael Cristofer is an American playwright, screenwriter, director and actor, born January 22, 1945, in Trenton, New Jersey. He began onstage before earning acclaim for The Shadow Box, a drama about terminally ill patients that won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. Cristofer wrote for films such as Falling in Love, The Witches of Eastwick, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Casanova and Georgia O'Keeffe. As a director, he earned a Directors Guild Award for HBO's biopic Gia and also made Original Sin, The Night Clerk and The Great Lillian Hall. Returning to acting after a hiatus, he appeared in Rubicon, Smash, Ray Donovan and American Horror Story: Coven. He became especially recognizable as E Corp executive Phillip Price in Mr. Robot and later played Brotherhood of Steel leader Elder Cleric Quintus in Fallout, extending a career spanning theatre, film and television.