Michael is the Artistic Director of The Alchemy Theatre. He has directed numerous productions in Chicago and Los Angeles, with his Austin directing credits being the Alchemy Theatre productions of The Robber Bridegroom, ‘Night, Mother, Grand Hotel, the Musical, King of Hearts (all at The Whisenhunt @ Zach Theater), The Baker’s Wife, The Virgin Trial, Mack & Mabel, Alchemy’s annual production of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, The Waverly Gallery, and Reverie Theatre’s production of Outside Mullingar. Michael has also directed the Alchemy’s staged readings of Peter and Alice, Domesticated, The Virgin Trial and a new play, The Sunflower Apostle, which he also wrote. Michael is an alumnus of Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Lab West and has performed Off-Broadway as Whizzer Brown in William Finn’s In Trousers. He is also the author of Dorothy Parker–Story Time for Grown Ups, a play based upon the rebellious life and extraordinary short stories of Dorothy Parker.

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