
Michael Strassner
Acting
Biography
Michael Strassner is a Baltimore-born actor, writer, and comedian who moved to Los Angeles after graduating from the University of Maryland to pursue a career in comedy and improv. He co-wrote and stars in the independent film The Baltimorons, which premiered at SXSW in 2025, and has appeared on shows like Parks and Recreation, Modern Family, and Black-ish, and portrayed Jerry “The King” Lawler on Young Rock.
Known For

The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Modern Family

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
The Daily Show

In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.
Parks and Recreation

A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
black-ish

Comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they're considering having another baby. Their parents are Joan the family's adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with it - and John, the gregarious patriarch who's searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. As the family's lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life's all about.
Life in Pieces

A high school teacher in Austin tries to balance the competing demands of the students and their parents in a world where the rules seem to change every day.
English Teacher

A wondrous story of the complexities of relationships, friendly and romantic that blurs the lines of expected tropes through random comedy and realistic, interconnected interactions.
The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo

A newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.
The Baltimorons

After a failed mission in the Arctic, spies must team up to foil a deadly plot orchestrated by Evelina, an international assassin and head of the world's worst crime syndicate.
A Spy Movie

A brother and sister embark on a journey to retrieve an inheritance from their grandmother in the wake of economic collapse and impending apocalypse.
Grandmother's Gold

When love-addict Lydia (Elizabeth Guest) meets steady and reliable boyfriend Tim (Andrew Leeds), she finally feels she is ready to settle down. But when Tim surprises her with a storybook Christmas-in-New-York proposal, she falls into her old ways, setting the storybook on fire and retreating back to Los Angeles and away from Tim. Heartbroken, Lydia moves in with her parents (yes, all four of them) and tries to pick herself up, but finds bad choices around every corner. In an effort to stop the spiraling, her parents throw a New Year's Eve bash with every eligible bachelor they know. Wooed by everyone at the party, Lydia finds Tim has one more surprise in store. Showing up before the clock strikes midnight, Lydia must wade through this minefield of suitors to prove the one love she is addicted to is Tim’s.
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

The director of a big budget Joan of Arc movie struggles to implement increasingly frustrating studio notes.
We Have Notes

In 2019, a group of four "filmmakers" set out to make a world-changing web series.
Webseries: The Movie
A trio of soon-to-be longtime friends go on a half-serious, half-existential odyssey across New York City to find a sewing needle for a pair of ripped jeans. Across one meandering Tuesday, the men reopen old wounds, fall into unexpected romantic entanglements, and confront whether it’s ever too late to stitch one’s life back together.
Tuesday, New York

Every 4 years of group of hometown friends get together, catch-up, have a few laughs and take part in a talent show that stems back hundreds of years.
The Carducci Talent Show

While housesitting for a friend, a recently single man must host a beautiful girl who is crashing on the couch for the week.
Good Luck with Everything

An honest portrayal of a young man figuring out how he wants to live out his romantic and sexual life.
How to Be a Slut in America
A lonely young woman tries to make friends by joining a death cult.
Ruthie Joins a Death Cult

Father Carl finally gets the chance to perform his first exorcism.
Carl the Exorcist
Caroline, moving back to the US after two years abroad with her surprise fiancé Rick, asks her best friend and ex-girlfriend, Amanda, to be her Maid of Honor, forcing them to navigate a wild and hilarious rollercoaster of love and friendship as Amanda tries to win back the love of her life.