Michael Benjamin Washington stars as Cyrus on the new NBC comedy "American Auto."

Washington most recently reprised his role of Bernard from the Tony Award-winning revival of "The Boys in the Band" in Netflix's feature adaptation. He can previously be seen opposite Cynthia Nixon in Ryan Murphy's "Ratched" and has had roles in "30 Rock" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."

On stage, Washington wowed audiences and critics in 2019 with a tour-de-force performance playing 25 different characters in the revival of Anna Deavere Smith's landmark 1992 one-person show, "Fires in the Mirror." He also wrote and starred in "Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin," which premiered regionally at La Jolla Playhouse and KC Rep in 2015.