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RECENT TV, FILM AND INTERVIEWS

Michael directed episodes 1.9 and 1.10 of Between Two Worlds, a drama created and written by Bevan Lee.  Watch it in Australia on 7plus, and in New Zealand on TVNZ On Demand.

Michael plays Ross in the film Dead, "a buddy murder mystery ... with ghosts".  Available on streaming services (AppleTV, Amazon Prime, etc.)

Michael did a wide-ranging interview on 12 September 2020 about the importance of books in his life, talking to Simon Devitt on The Reading Room on Instagram.  Watch it here.

Michael talks about the film Dead, the evolution of fantasy tv, stories about making Hercules and Xena and their place in the development of the tv and film industry in New Zealand, and much more on The Estradiol Illusions Podcast, 24 September 2020.  Listen to it here.

 

UPCOMING FILMS AND TV

Michael directed episodes 6-9 of Power Rangers Dino Fury in November/December 2020.

Michael directed episodes 1.9-1.13 of Mystic for CBBC (UK), Seven Network (Aus), and TVNZ (NZ) in August-December 2020.

Michael co-starred in short film Worthy of Thee, filmed in Cambridge in early February 2020.  Info.

Michael played Green in feature film Northspur, filmed in Marlborough in November 2019.  Info.

  

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January/February 2021: Power Rangers Dino Fury
Michael is directing episodes 19, 20 and 21 of Power Rangers Dino Fury.  He previously directed episodes 6-9.

 

26-27 February 2021: Birdland
Michael will play Alistair in this Auckland Fringe/Summer at Q production.

"A searing indictment of celebrity culture, this NZ premiere is British drama at its finest".

Written by Simon Stephens and directed by Jordan Dickson, it stars Cherie Moore, Jonathan James, Phoebe McKellar, Jacob Dale, Mel Odedra, and Fiona Armstrong. 

Click here for info and to book.

 

11-14 March 2021: Jack and the Beanstalk
Michael is the writer, director, and star (as Jack's mum) of the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk for Auckland Arts Festival, at Bruce Mason Centre.
Featuring no ordinary Jack and no ordinary beanstalk, this madcap family show brings a giant ant, a crazy chase, the Sky Tower, an alien invasion and a lovesick villian into the fairytale fold for an outlandish and joyous theatrical trip.  You'll be splitting your sides!

See Jack climb the beanstalk!  See Jill come tumbling down!  See Jack get told off by his mum!

Hailed by the entire parliament as a literary masterpiece, this outrageous all-singing, all-dancing show will thrill you with its spills, stun you with its things that stun people, and amaze you with its amazingness.

Click here for info and to book.


22 June-10 July 2021:  Galileo in The Life of Galileo
Michael will star as Galileo Galilei in Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo for Auckland Theatre Company. 

It may have been more than 400 years since the Roman Inquisition challenged Galileo Galilei's proof that the Earth rotated around the sun but, sadly, the story of arrogant leaders refusing to accept the findings of science is all too timely.  Bertolt Brecht's masterly portrait of genius under fire bristles with thought-provoking contemporary resonances.

Also starring Andrew Grainger, Fasitua Amosa, Patrick Tafa, Hera Dunleavy, and Ravikanth Gurunathan, directed by Colin McColl.  Click here for info and to book.