BIO

Michael is a production designer and filmmaker who recently completed FX’s DYING FOR SEX, starring Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate. Additional recent credits include Netflix’s limited series KALEIDOSCOPE and the international thriller HIT & RUN. Also for Netflix, Michael designed season one of Natasha Lyonne’s RUSSIAN DOLL, for which he won both a Primetime Emmy and an Art Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Production Design.

Starting out in the indie world, Michael’s feature credits include standouts such as Andrew Bujalski’s Sundance-winning COMPUTER CHESS and Robbie Pickering’s NATURAL SELECTION, winner of the 2011 SXSW Grand Jury Prize. 

Beyond film, Michael founded PEOPLE FOR URBAN PROGRESS, an Indianapolis non-profit and urban design do-tank. This work was featured in Dwell, The Huffington Post, and CityLab, and Michael presented PUP's story at DesignBoom in New York, Brightworks Innovation Day in Toronto, and Creative Mornings in Indianapolis. Through PUP, he was also a featured designer at the 2019 Exhibit Columbus design and architecture biennial.

Michael earned his Master in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught production design at the University of Texas Film Institute. He has also worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Wabash College. He splits his time between New York, Los Angeles, and Sydney, Australia.  

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