Michael is a New York City based director, producer, and theatre educator. Michael is founder and Artistic Director of Little Red Light Theatre an Off Broadway theatre company specializing in Jewish/Queer musicals and plays. He produced/directed Hello Again, Thrill Me: the Leopold & Loeb Story, An infinite Ache, Harry Reems Goes to Hollywood and Fixing Frankie a new musical with Little Red Light Theatre.

As a Director, Michael has worked in Bergen, Norway where he directed a new Norwegian translation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. He directed/choreographed All Kinds of People for Inside Broadway which is a program to bring Broadway shows to NYC Public schools. Other directing credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Escape to Margaritaville at Woodstock Playhouse. Hello Dolly, Always Patsy Cline, Legally Blonde at Priscilla Beach Theatre. Titanic (Carmel Symphony Orchestra) The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Big Bang for Actors Theatre of Indiana and a world premiere devised play entitled Finding Home at Northern Michigan University.

As an actor, Michael has toured Europe in the European Tour of Hair, performed at the Kennedy Center Gala with Elaine Stritch and Marvin Hamlisch.

Michael has an MFA in Directing from The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and a BFA from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. He is a proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA and SDC. https://littleredlighttheatre.com