A native West Virginian, Michael’s artwork has been seen in both group and solo exhibitions and his films have been screened in numerous festivals including Vision Fest at the Tribeca Theater in NYC and the Pittsburgh Gallery Crawl. He has over 25 years of experience working as a professional designer and artisan for theater, film, and events across the country. He earned his MFA in scenic and costume design from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and his MFA in film and television from SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts. Michael has additional training in painting and illustration from Parson’s School of Design and the School of Visual Arts (NYC). His work has been seen at the Good speed Opera, PBS, The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor (CA), The Eclipse Theater Co., The Texas Shakespeare Festival, The Dallas Shakespeare Festival, The Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater, The Sierra Repertory Theater and numerous independent and corporate films, music videos and commercials. Michael was the video designer for the 2014 Contemporary American Theater Festival production of Uncanny Valley in Shepherdstown as well as the Off- Broadway production. As a milliner, he worked on the Broadway productions of Wicked, The Producers, Spamalot and The Boy from Oz among many others. He is an art instructor at Wheeling Jesuit University and the Curator of Exhibitions at Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center in Wheeling, WV.