Though still acting, has launched his own acting school Zero Gavity Film & Television Academy based in Florida. (June 2009)
Mike's big break, before movies, and while still in the Staircase workshop, was a Union 76 commercial as the young assistant to Murph, played by the immortal Richard X. Slattery.
In 1980 and '81, Mike was a student at the Staircase Theater Workshop in the Pico-Robertson area of Los Angeles. Also in the class were Troy Evans and John Luder.