Mike Edward is former decathlete, and dancer and is a New Zealand based actor. He trained at the Unitec Performing Arts School under Raymond Hawthorne and Murray Hutchinson between 1998-2001 and continued to study the Meisner technique with Michael Saccente between 2010-2015. He has had an extensive TV and Theatre in NZ career spanning 30 years with core cast roles on many national television shows and leads throughout the country in various regional theatres. In 2012 he co-founded The Dust Palace, a circus theatre company in which he was a performer, writer and director. The Dust Palace toured internationally to much acclaim and continues to be NZ's pre-eminent circus theatre company. Mike is represented by Auckland Actors in NZ and Park Noack Agency LLC in the US.