Michael is a professional screenwriter and professor of screenwriting with thirty years of experience writing for major studios and fifteen years of experience lecturing at major universities. He began his career writing and directing cable commercials while earning his undergraduate degree in broadcasting and film at Boston University’s College of Communication. 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 & 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 onto work in television creating unscripted docuseries for Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, Travel Channel, History, Discovery, NBC, TBS, TNT, TLC, OWN, DIY, A&E, and MSNBC for which he won a CINE Golden Eagle Award. More recently, he served as consultant on the feature films Fear of Rain starring Harry Connick Jr., A Wing and A Prayer starring Denis Quaid, The Curse of La Patasola starring Gillian Fitzgerald, Fight Night starring Kevin Hart, and Signing Day starring Mira Sorvino. The award-winning short 10-56, which Michael co-wrote and co-produced, is currently in development as a feature film with Riot Proof Entertainment. 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, develop the provocative docuseries A Nation on Fire with Shoulderhill Entertainment, and pen the feature film The Diane Crump Story for Three Ring Pictures. A renowned instructor in screenwriting, Michael serves as senior lecturer at the University of North Georgia, mentor in Reinhardt University’s Creative Writing MFA program, 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.