Michael has over 30 years experience in theatre, film, and television as an actor, director, teacher, and writer. He earned his MFA Degree in directing from Southern Methodist University under the guidance of Burnet Hobgood, and a BFA Degree in acting from Virginia Commonwealth University.  Michael joined the faculty at Texas State University in 2001 having previously taught graduate acting classes at the Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training and in the FSU graduate Film Conservatory. In addition, he has taught at the University of Texas-Austin, Virginia Commonwealth University, and St. Edwards University.

Michael teaches the first year of BFA acting which focuses on a physical approach to acting he developed and also teaches at acting studios around the country.  Michael’s second semester of BFA training includes Viewpoints, Laban, mask, corporeal mime, commedia, clown, and devising new comic material.  In addition, he teaches Acting Realism, Acting Styles, and Advanced Directing in the Masters program.

As an actor, Michael has acted in over 30 films and television shows, with Roy Scheider, Dennis Quaid, Juliet Lewis, Charlotte Rampling, Chuck Norris, Bonnie Bedelia, Jerry Orbach, Louis Gossett, Jr., Timothy Dalton, Corbin Bernsen, Michael York, David Keith, Larry Hagman, Dennis Weaver, and E.G. Marshall.  Most notably he was a regular on the NBC series seaQuest, playing Secretary General McGath for 2 seasons, and starred in the PBS series The Real Adventures of Sherlock Jones and Proctor Watson.  Most recently he was seen in Friday Night Lights on NBC.  

On stage, Michael has had a distinguished career as an actor, performing in a variety of works from Shakespeare to Beckett, from Simon to Wilde in New York and regional theatres. Some of his roles from the last couple of years include Lear in King Lear and Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing at Texas State, The Ghost/First Player/Player King in Hamlet at Austin Shakespeare, Julius Reiter in Remembrance Through the Performing Arts production of The Flame Keeper, Dr. Kelekian in The State Theatre Company's production of Wit directed by Michael Bloom, and Willy Loman  as a guest Equity artist in St. Edwards' production of Death of a Salesman.

At Texas State, Michael has directed The Night of the Iguana, The Rover, The Learned Ladies, Metamorphoses, the musical Chicago, and Death of a Salesman with Larry Hovis (Hogan’s Heroes) as Willy Loman.  An award winning director, Michael has directed a wide variety of plays, including productions of All's Well That Ends Well, Romeo & Juliet, Equus (starring David Birney), Dancing at Lugnasa, The Cherry Orchard, Twelfth Night, A View from the Bridge, Our Country's Good, Tartuffe, The Homecoming, Hedda Gabbler, Fool for Love, A Day n Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine and Sweet Charity, to name a few.