C. Michael Lederer

C. Michael Lederer, born in 1956 in Princeton, New Jersey, is an author, actor, cultural worker, and founder of the Dubrovnik Shakespeare Festival in 2009, where he served as artistic director. He has lived in Berlin since 1998, co-founded the Safe Haven Museum in Oswego, New York in 1998, and comes from a family with notable academic and refugee history, including his father Ivo Lederer, a professor of diplomatic history.[2][5]