Michael is a playwright, screenwriter and a regular contributor to Bespoke Magazine. His screenplay McCleskey (semi-finalist in the 2010 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting) is currently in development. Theatrically, Michael has worked with Tony-award winning actor Richard Easton and Logan Marshall-Green on his play, Turning Night in the Dying House (due for production in Los Angeles). His death-row drama, Red Herring with Thomas Jefferson Byrd &Shane McRae and won "Most Outstanding Play of the Summer" in the New York International Fringe Festival. He also served as Assistant Director to Mark Brokaw on the Broadway musical production of John Waters’ Cry Baby. Michael currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Wynn Everett; their eyes on a cabin in the woods in Georgia.