Michael
Krebs has portrayed
Lincoln for various occasions throughout
the United States since 1994. As producer of With
Lincoln
Productions,
an artist ensemble, Krebs appeared in the Lincoln Inauguration
Sesquicentennial events on March 5, 2011 in Washington DC for
inaugural swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol and banquet at Willard
Hotel, also the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Museum opening in
Springfield, Illinois, and their 2009 Bicentennial
week, the Hoover
Presidential Library, Gerald Ford Museum, Gettysburg, New Salem
Historic Site, Harold Washington Library, and an extended run in
Chicago. Debra Ann Miller accompanies Krebs in taking educational
programs to hundreds of schools throughout the U.S. Working at
Chicago
Historical Society from 1996-2005, Krebs appeared weekly in the Voices
From History Program, portraying President Lincoln in the highly
successful exhibits “The Last Best Hope
of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and
the Promise of America” and “The American Presidency: A Glorious
Burden,” also with their Distance Learning Center in opening Wet
with
Blood, an
examination of Lincoln’s assassination archives. He
participated with Library of Congress on Mr. Lincoln's Virtual
Library.
As a guest speaker at Carl Sandburg College, he was
part of President Clinton's
address in
January
of
1995. Prior, he
portrayed
candidate Lincoln in the 1994 C-Span live broadcast re-enactment of the
Lincoln-Douglas
Debate held at
Knox
College.
Appearing as Lincoln in
The History Channel's Conspiracy Lincoln
Assassination, in Hatchett Books
Group's Abraham
Lincoln: Vampire
Hunter,
and a BBC production of
Lincoln airing in 2011.
Also
appearing on
Chicago’s WGN 9, ABC 7, NBC 5, CBS 2, and FOX TV.
Like
Mr. Lincoln, Michael
Krebs stands 6'4" without his boots.
 Michael
Krebs with some new friends at Chicago History Museum
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