Mike, a four-time Parsec Awards finalist, has had over 150 audio plays produced in the U.S. and overseas. He’s won a dozen Moondance International Film Festival Awards (winner, finalist, and semi-finalist) in their TV pilot, audio play, short screenplay, and short story categories.

A more complete list of awards is presented below by year.

In 2020, his screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the Unique Voices Screenplay Competition from Creative Screenwriting magazine. The following year, his TV pilot script “The Bullying Squad” was a quarter-finalist in the Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition.

His prose has appeared in many magazines and two dozen anthologies.

In 2015, Mike's short script “The Candy Man” was produced as Dark Chocolate. In 2020, his second short film, Hotline, was produced.

He is currently working on a number of projects and is seeking representation for his script and prose writing.

Mike keeps a blog at audioauthor.blogspot.com.

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AWARDS

2021:

• TV pilot script “The Bullying Squad,” quarter-finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition (out of a total of 4500 entries).

2020:

• Feature screenplay Die Laughing, semi-finalist, Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition.
• “Danny MacIntyre Meets the Molecule,” second prize, Marion Thauer Brown Audio Drama Scriptwriting Competition.

2019:

• Among awards at the Moondance International Film Festival: Finalist - TV pilot category [“Solutions, Inc.”] and Winner - TV Pilot category [“Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator”].

2018:

• Among awards at the Moondance International Film Festival: Finalist - Short Screenplay category [“The Curious Affair at the Arkwright Club”] and Finalist - TV Pilot category [“Noah’s Bark”].

2017:

• Among awards at the Moondance International Film Festival: Finalist - Short Screenplay category [“Olivia's Swing”].

2016: 

• Audio script “The Forever Pill,” Moondance International Film Festival semi-finalist, Audioplay category.
• Episode 1 of audio series Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator, Parsec Awards finalist, Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Short Form).

2015:

• Dark Chocolate, winner, Audience Choice Award, best film in the horror/sci-fi/fantasy genre, San Diego Film Consortium Awards (beating out 11 other films).
• Audio script “Balancing Act,” Parsec Awards finalist, Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form).

2014:

• TV pilot script “The Bullying Squad,” winner, Moondance International Film Festival, TV pilot category.
• “The Bullying Squad,” winner, The Columbine Award.
• Audio script “The Pen is Mightier,” Parsec Awards finalist, Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Short Form).

2013:

• “The Return of Cosmo Draper,” winner, Marion Thauer Brown Audio Drama Scriptwriting Competition (inaugural year).

2012:

• “The Pen is Mightier,” winner, New York Old Time Radio script-writing contest.

2011:

• Short film script “Professor Hoyt's Remarkable Elixir,” semi-finalist, Shriekfest Horror Film competition.
• Short film script “The Candy Man” named among the top 125 short film scripts in the Golden Brad awards.

2010:

• “Sides,” Parsec Awards finalist, Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form).
• “King of the Beasts,” first prize, Friends of Old-Time Radio script-writing competition.

2008:

• “A Heavenly Price,” second-place winner, Friends of Old-Time Radio writing contest.