Michael is a professional screenwriter and professor of screenwriting with fifteen years experience writing for major studios and fifteen years experience lecturing at major universities.

He began his career writing and directing cable commercials while earning his undergraduate degree in broadcasting and film in the College of Communication at Boston University. Soon after he landed in Los Angeles working in production for ABC, NBC, CBS and HBO before taking a job as assistant to Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment on the feature films Always, Arachnophobia, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Jurassic Park. He went onto serve in creative affairs on feature films Crimson Tide, Terminal Velocity, and Taking Care of Business at Hollywood Pictures before embarking on a career as a screenwriter for Paramount, Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, and Universal on such movies as Vampire in Brooklyn, Home on The Range, Mulan II, and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2002 as best animated feature.

An opportunity to serve as executive producer at Turner Entertainment brought him home to Atlanta in 2007. He went on to work in television creating series for Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, Travel Channel, History, Discovery, NBC, TBS, TNT, TLC, OWN, DIY, and MSNBC for which he won a CINE Golden Eagle Award. More recently, Michael served as consultant on the feature films Fear of Rain starring Harry Connick Jr., A Wing and A Prayer starring Denis Quaid, and Signing Day starring Mira Sorvino. Over the last year, he was hired to adapt the award-winning children’s book series Freeing Freddie into an animated television series with Free the Mind Media, write the feature thriller Project 33 for Monument Multimedia, pen the feature film Fathom and Faith for Three Ring Picture, and develop the provocative docuseries A Nation on Fire with ShoulderHill Entertainment.

A renowned instructor in screenwriting, Michael serves as senior lecturer at the University of North Georgia, mentor in the Creative Writing MFA program at Reinhardt University, and founder of Screenwriter School. In 2018 the Georgia Film Academy hired him to create a high school screenwriting curriculum which has since been taught to more than 15,000 students in the state. His book on screenwriting - Crash! Boom! Bang! How to Write Action Movies (published by www.mwp.com) - is available wherever books are sold. RULE ONE is his debut mystery novel. He plans on writing more.