3/31/25 – On April 12 & 13 we’ll be presenting songs and scenes from our new musical ELDERLAND as part of MusiCoLab’s Spotlight Series at CSz in Philadelphia. A cast of 6 fabulous performers will be directed by Bill Fennelly and musically directed by Linda Henderson. Tix can be purchased HERE. Please join us!

3/29/25 – In early 2001 I had the pleasure of arranging Grant King’s wonderful song Bodies of Water for an ensemble of vocalists and musicians for a performance at The Brooklyn Museum. 24 years later Grant invited me to re-envision and edit an archival video of the performance. You can watch it HERE on Grant’s Know More Secrets website. Many of the wonderful artists featured in this film were part of Outmusic – a vibrant organization of LGBTQ+ musicians Michael started in New York in 1990. Enjoy!

2/18/25 – We’re back at Milliron Studios in New York filming SONG FOR JOY from our 1996 musical BREATHE. Set in the early 1990s before same-sex marriage was legal, Joy – played by Hana Culbreath – dreams of and then grows up and finds her future wife Hope – played by Alyssa Watkins. Bill Castellino is directing and Eric Svejcar is musical directing these two wonderful actors. Judith Manocherian is producing with Streaming Musicals.

1/27/25 – We’re in New York at Milliron Studios filming demos of 11 of the songs we’ve written for our new musical ELDERLAND. We’re SO grateful to be working with a fabulous ensemble of musical theatre actors: Donnie Hammond, Austin Ku, Jillian Louis, Jesse Manocherian, Rob Tucker, and Nicole Van Giesen – and with a brilliant Musical Director – Eric Svejcar. As we edit the song demos we’ll be uploading them – along with 12 monologues – to our new ELDERLAND YouTube Channel which you can view HERE. If you’d like to learn more about this project – and/or make a tax-deductible contribution to help support it – check out our Fractured Atlas ELDERLAND page HERE.

12/1/24 – We invite you to visit us at our studio this month for holiday gifts. We’ll be open by chance or appointment plus we’ll be having an Open Studio Weekend – Friday 12/13, Saturday 12/14, and Sunday 12/15 from Noon to 6 PM. Thru December 31st we’re offering studio and online 25% discounts. Michael’s online shop is HERE.

We hope to see you in-person and/or online! Wishing you a healthy, loving holiday season.

8/27/24 – We’re in Midtown Manhattan at Milliron Studios filming a test/demo of BOXED from our musical BREATHE. DP Tyler Milliron is shooting performance artist/gay activist Arthur Mann (played by Noah Ruebeck) as he delivers an angry rant at The Performance Hole, a storefront theatre on the Lower East Side in 1985. What a joy to be revisiting our musical BREATHE 28 years after its premiere in Provincetown! And to be working on this piece again with director Bill Castellino and actor Susan J. Jacks, as well as with actors Donnie Hammond and Robert Anthony Jones, musical director Doug Oberhamer, associate director Victoria Casillo, producer Judith Manocherian, and Tom Polum and Stacia Fernandez of Streaming Musicals. Yay!

7/27/24 – In the fall of 2022 we traveled to South Florida to interview an amazing group of residents at a continuing care retirement community. We spent the next 18 months writing songs and monologues inspired the life stories they shared with us, and weaving them together into a concept musical we call ELDERLAND. Now, we’re raising funds to rehearse and film a concert presentation of the piece. We welcome your interest in this project and we invite you to consider making a tax-deductible contribution HERE.

6/19/24 – We’re excited to share this short (50 second) sizzle we created for the new episodic animated series we’re developing with Betsy Alexander and All That’s Good Productions. Inspired by the true story of internet sensation Nora the Piano Cat. Stay tuned!

3/4/24 – Our latest collaboration with floral designers Claudia and Vincent Roux of Petit Jardin en Ville in Old City Philadelphia. They invited us to create a performance piece for their Tuscan Garden exhibit at the 2024 Philadelphia Flower Show. Isabella Tognini & Seamus Kirby play a young couple who meet and fall in love in the garden – one who speaks only English and the other only Italian. The music & lyrics are by us. The song is sung by Tommi Mischell & Dan.

Here’s a 3 minute video excerpt:

11/1/23 – We’re proud to be included in this new book of interviews with 17 LGBTQ longterm couples. Check it out HERE