- Michael was a contributing writer and film critic for the horror website, Horror Freak News from 2014-2019. He penned approximately 400 movie reviews and feature articles for HFN, during his tenure.
- Michael was the Region 5 winner (representing 8 states and performing at the Kennedy Center) in the 1996 Irene Ryan/ACTF Acting Scholarship Competition.
- Michael was one of the contributing authors to the critically acclaimed, best-selling and award winning "Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks" (2013) His essay covered the Nazi zombie classic, Shock Waves.
- Michael is a contributing film critic for the horror website, Tom Holland's Terror Time.
- Michael was 1 of 48 contributing writers to the book of essays, "My Favorite Horror Movie" (2018) edited by Christian Ackerman. Michael's essay covers George A. Romero's Day of the Dead (1985).
- Michael's feature length spec script, "Spider Eaters" was named a Top Five Finalist at Screamfest 2016, a Top Ten Finalist at FilmQuest 2016 and a Top Ten Finalist at NOLA Horror Film Festival 2016.
- Michael's feature length spec script, "The Costume People" was named a Top Ten Finalist at FilmQuest 2017 and a Top Ten Finalist at NOLA Horror Film Festival 2017.
- Michael's feature length spec script, "Mom Died" was named the Winner of the Horror Genre at the 2019 Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition, a Top 13 Finalist at the 2019 Nightmares Film Festival and a Semi-finalist at 2019's Screamfest.
- In May of 2020, Michael was part of a virtual, benefit reading of "Our Town", which included actors Amy Brenneman, Annie Potts, Joshua Leonard, John Michael Higgins, Lee Arenberg, David Alpay and Zoe Hall, among many others.
- In December of 2020, Michael was part of a virtual, benefit reading of "A Christmas Carol", which included actors Amy Brenneman, David Dastmalchian and David Alpay, among many others.
- Michael's feature length spec script, "Boys" was named a Top Five Finalist at 2021's Screamfest, a Screenplay Finalist at 2021's FilmQuest and placed in the Top 20% at the 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellowship.
- In the spring of 2022, Michael completed work on his 15th feature spec screenplay, the horror/fantasy/comedy, "A Stench in the Nostrils of God".
- Michael played "The Writer" in two separate stage productions of Neil Simon's The Good Doctor.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content