Please note: this event will be held at the Officer's Club at Fort McNair
February 12, 2011
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 at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum opening and their 2009 Bicentennial week, also 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.
