Born Michael Jerrod Moore on October 6, 1982 in Midland, Texas, Michael Arden debuted on Broadway playing Tom Sawyer in a the 2003 Roundabout and Deaf West revival of Big River. His even more notable stage performance was starring opposite John Hill in 2004's off-Broadway production, Bare, A Pop Opera. In 2005, Arden played Nick, a sexually promiscuous gay man in love with a shark, in Adam Bock's surreal play Swimming in the Shallows at New York's Second Stage Theatre. His other theater credits include Pippin, God of Vengeance, Falsettoland, Tom Jones' Harold and Maude, West Side Story, Songs for a New World, The Common Pursuit, and A Winter's Tale. On television, Arden appeared on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, where he played Neal Hannigan, and Numb3rs.

Buddy is played by Michael Arden in The Return of Jezebel James. Buddy is the eager-to-please assistant of Sarah Thomkins, a successful children's book editor. The Return of Jezebel James follows the story of Sarah as she weaves her magic in storybook writing and reestablishing her relationship with her sister, Coco.



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