director

Raised in Hawaii, Michael Medeiros moved to New York to study with famed acting teacher Uta Hagen and has been living and working as writer, director, actor and composer ever since. His feature film, Tiger Lily Road, starring Tom Pelphrey (Mank, Ozark, Task) played U.S. and international film festivals and won the Audience Award at Woods Hole. It ran at NYC's Quad Cinema and is distributed by FilmHub. Michael also wrote and directed Underground, shot entirely in the NYC subway system which premiered in the U.S. at Sedona International Film Festival and 3 Minutes, a film about a mass shooting which premiered at Soho International Film Festival. He is the writer/composer of A Wild Thing, a '60s rock musical which was partly developed at The Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals and was a finalist for a 2023 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship. He also wrote the vampire origin story, Young Van Helsing (& the Vampire of Ipswich). He has been an onstage instrumentalist at Goodman, Long Wharf, Huntington & Great Lakes Theatres among others. As an ACTOR he has appeared in studio films and award winning indies, including X-Men First Class, RoboCop 2, She’s Lost Control, Synecdoche New York, Margot At The Wedding. On television, he starred in the Custer mini-series Son of the Morning Star with David Strathairn, recurred on Manifest and guest-starred on numerous TV series, including seven episodes of Law & Order. Onstage, he won critical acclaim in Goodman Theatre's Camino Real and has sung the title roles in Sweeny Todd and Man Of LaMancha. He has also appeared at City Center Encores in 1776, Playwrights Horizons in Violet, The Public Theatre, Long Wharf, Huntington, Kennedy Center and many others. He was lucky enough to spend ten summers at Mark Woods and Meir Ribalow’s New River Dramatists, a writer’s retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He likes cats and dogs equally.