Michael Graf is an Emmy Award winning filmmaker and was named one of the “Top 25 Screenwriters To Watch in 2021” by the International Screenwriters Association. He’s been shortlisted twice for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s prestigious Nicholl Fellowship and has won top screenwriting honors at film festivals in Paris, Park City and Nassau. He’s produced and optioned scripts include WINTER OF FROZEN DREAMS, THE LAST INDIAN WAR, THROWING HAMMERS and GOD LOVES THE PACKERS.

He’s also a member of the Director’s Guild of America, directed two Super Bowl campaigns and was the inaugural Writer In Residence at the UW Institute For Discovery. Michael’s directing style has been referred to as an “actor first approach” and he brings that same method to working with his writing students.