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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