Michael is a founding member and Producing Artistic Director of the Dell'Arte Company.  As a member of the Dell'Arte performing ensemble for the past 30 years, he has been a recipient of San Francisco and San Diego Critics Circle and Los Angeles Drama-Logue awards for Performance and Writing.  He has co-authored and performed in over 25 Dell’Arte productions, including Mad Love, Slapstick, Intrigue at Ah-pah, Whiteman Meet Bigfoot, Paradise Lost, Performance Anxiety, Malpratice and Wild Card.
He is also Director of the California State Summer School for the Arts Theatre Program. He is a master teacher of Physical Performance Styles at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, and has also taught for the Dutch National Theatre School; the California Institute of the Arts; Teater Studion in Stockholm, Sweden and at the Aarhus University "Dramaturgi Institute" in Denmark.
Michael is Producing Director for Dell'Arte's Mad River Festival. He has directed productions nationally and internationally, including  a new Grand Guignol work for the Swedish National Theatre. In 2006 he adapted and directed the Peer Gynt Project for the Dell'Arte Company which is currently on tour in Denmark. Michael was a also resident director at Het Vervolg Theatre in Maastricht, Holland, directing six productions over five years.
Michael was a member of the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group (TCG) from 1998 - 2004 where he served as the president of the International Theatre Institute/USA. He was an invited guest speaker at the first International Mask Conference in Venlo, Holland, with Dario Fo, Donato Sartori and Jacques Lecoq and has had articles published in a variety of national and international publications including Critical Perspectives, Writings on Art and Civic Dialogue.