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above photo: Joe
Shuman Photography
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 most
recently invited by Government of the State of
Puebla and the Mexican Federal Government to
participate in its Sesquicentennial of Cinco de Mayo
commemoration in Puebla, Mexico 2012.
Also appearing on BBC,
Chicago’s WGN 9, ABC 7, NBC 5, CBS 2, and FOX
TV. Commercials
available in Video
Gallery.
Like
Mr. Lincoln, Michael stands 6'4" without his boots.
Michael Krebs in
reenactment of the swearing in
ceremony.
Commemorative photo of 150th anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln's First
Inaugural,
Capitol Hill Auditorium, Washington DC.
photo by Jeff Malet |
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