Biography

Michael D. Coffey was born in Ulysses, Kansas and grew up mostly there before living in Amarillo, Texas during high school and college. He is a graduate of Amarillo College, where he earned a Microcomputer Specialist Associate degree. He is also a graduate of West Texas A&M University, where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in computer information systems. Later, he took several classes at the University of Kansas. Michael had a full-time career working for the City of Lawrence, Kansas, mostly at the Fire Medical Department as their Systems Analyst/computer support technician, helping the firefighters and administrative staff.

At Amarillo College, where he worked part-time for two years in the writing lab on computers, his classes included a news gathering and writing class, two English composition classes and creative writing. At the University of Kansas, he took dramatic screenwriting twice because he liked it and several other classes such as cognitive psychology, biology, anatomy and physiology. He has written five feature-length screenplays, three short stories, and has started an adventure chapter book series for young readers.

Michael's involvement with filmmaking spans over 20 years. He is credited as an associate producer for the feature film, Nailbiter. He is also an associate producer of the short documentary, My Name Is Annabel, about a young woman who has Down syndrome, and he is a co-producer of the fun feature documentary, Catching Air. He is also a co-producer of a recently finished feature documentary titled The Sound of Hope. Michael also has experience in front of the camera from acting in seven films. His first speaking part is in the feature film, The Sublime and Beautiful, filmed in Lawrence, Kansas in 2012.

Michael is the writer and a producer of Triumph, a sports-drama movie starring RJ Mitte (aka Walt Jr. in Breaking Bad) and co-starring Oscar nominee Terrence Howard. Triumph was released on April 30th, 2021 in 200+ Cinemark theaters nationwide. Triumph was released February 27, 2024 on Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, iTunes, etc.

In early autumn of 2024, Michael directed his supernatural suspense thriller screenplay, One Eye Open, in Lawrence, Kansas.
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