MICHAEL SCHWARTZ
 

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FILM, TV &
DIGITAL MEDIA

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Writing, directing and producing Snatched for 20th Digital Studio (Disney), starring Emmy Award Winner Tatiana Maslany (She-Hulk), Brendan Hines (Locke & Key) and Misha Osherovich (Freaky), streaming on Hulu

  • Writing, directing and producing Strangers On A Beach starring Jelani Alladin (Fellow Travelers), Zane Phillips (Fire Island), Juliana Aidén Martinez (Griselda) and Jack Falahee (How To Get Away With Murder), produced by Academy Award Winner Andrew Carlberg and Gotham Award Winner Nilou Safinya, with cinematography from Sundance Award Winner Matthew Pothier and music from Grammy Award Winner Andrew Dost.

  • Writing, directing and producing the award-winning film Montana, based on my Sundance finalist TV pilot and YA novel Project Wild, streaming now on Amazon Prime

  • Other writing includes TV pilots Senior High (Top 5 Finalist, Final Draft’s Big Break) and Pac Heights (SeriesFest Semi-Finalist) and the novel Project Wild (named by Launch Pad’s Prose as one of the best unpublished manuscripts in the world)

  • Directing, producing and co-writing the interactive TV pilot Spice It Up! (optioned by Warner Music Group and Eko); Directing segments for The Tony Awards telecast on CBS

  • Directing, producing, and movement directing music videos for Billboard charting pop duo Karmina (with Academy Award nominated composer/producer John Powell) and Grammy Award Amplifier Finalist Malynda Hale

  • Directing and producing a 5-part video series for Curio, launching an exclusive collection of NFT’s inspired by the award-winning, afrofuturistic graphic novel Concrete Park

 
 
 

Concerts, Award Shows, Galas, Fashion Shows, Festivals, Conferences and Parties

 

EXPERIENTIAL
& EVENTS

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Directing and Producing the annual Tony Awards events at Rainbow Room, Sofitel, and The Plaza Hotel, and the annual Tommy Awards Off-Broadway

  • Producing the TikTok Shop Experience at Salesforce Connections in Chicago and VidCon in Anaheim

  • Directing and Producing the annual YMA Fashion Gala at The Hilton Grand, Marriot Marquis, and Grand Hyatt NYC

  • Directing and Showrunning The Golden Trailer Awards at the historic Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles

  • Directing and Producing Imagine What We Can Do, a large-scale immersive gala for the non-profit PENCIL at The American Museum of Natural History

  • Experiential Direction and Production for tech companies Better Spaces, Speakizi, and All Star Code, including events at Google, Microsoft, AOL, and Spotify and the four-day virtual festival Better Work Week

  • Brand Activation and Management includes Evian, Comic Con, Disney, King, HBO, Pandora, Panasonic, TriBeCa Film Festival, Time Warner Cable, Nautica, Express, U.S. Open, Banana Republic, and The Indie Beauty Expo

 
 
 

THEATRE

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Co-creating and directing That’s A Gay Ass Live Show, a Queer variety game show extravaganza, featuring Bowen Yang (SNL), Ryan O’Connell (Special), Punam Patel (Special), Johnny Sibilly (Hacks), Jessica Vosk (Wicked), and more.

  • Directing a site-specific, immersive production of Peter Pan with a team of 400 people for The Mountain Play Association at the 4,000 seat Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre atop Mt. Tamalpais, CA

  • Directing and choreographing The Drowsy Chaperone in the University Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, CT

  • Directing Lost Cause at The Old Vic in London, as one of seven American directors invited to participate in the TS Eliot US/UK Exchange

  • Directing for IAMA Theatre Company’s 23-Hour Play Festival in LA, featuring Katie Lowes, Lena Dunham, Joey McIntyre, Dan Bucatinsky, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Joe Morton

  • Assistant Directing Company, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert and Patti Lupone, at the New York Philharmonic, and The Homecoming at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco

 
 

PHOTOGRAPHY

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Travel, portrait, and editorial photography

  • Featured in the liner notes of music albums, on the jackets of New York Times best-selling books, in art galleries throughout SoHo, and on the headshot boards for Broadway Opening Nights