Michael is an award-winning playwright who is making the transition over to screens big and small. The only two-time winner of the Rosa Parks Award in Kennedy Center history (for SUMNER FALLS and HOMELAND), Michael has also won the Kennedy Center’s John Cauble Award for the nation’s top collegiate one-act play, for THE LIGHTHOUSE. Now he is taking his stories to the cinematic mediums. Currently working without representation, Michael creates feature films, short films, treatments and teleplays, both on his own and under the Four Green Fields banner with fellow screenwriter James P. Brosnahan. He lives with his wife and two children in Austin, Texas.