Michael J Volpe is a former business journalist and high-ranking Federal government official in Washington DC. Most recently he won the 2024 DC after Dark Film Festival, the Hollywood Stage Script Film Competition and the Chicago Script Award for his dramedy MAFIA PROM DATE. He has also won numerous other film festival screenplay awards, by himself and co-writing with his son, Andrew Volpe, an award winning independent filmmaker. Their baseball screenplay drama, The Free Agent Fan, has been optioned.