Biography

Michael's most recent film work was starring in A Girl's Best Friend, written and directed by Alex Dona, which won best film at the Ritz Uncovered Film Festival in Sydney and has so far also been accepted into the Chicago Horror Festival & the Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival in Queensland.

In addition to his film work, his theatre credits include the Australian premier of The Spoils by Jesse Eisenberg (Flight Path Theatre), which he also produced, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (New Theatre), A Servant of Two Masters & Madame Ballet, both directed by John Senczuk, Wasted (Southwark Playhouse, London), Assassins (SUNY New Paltz), Mad Forrest (West Australian Youth Theatre Co.) and How to Change the World and Make Bank Doing It (Limelight on Oxford), which he co-wrote, co-produced and directed.

He has completed the long form improv curriculums @ Laugh Masters Academy, Improv Theatre Sydney and the Mecca of long form improv, iO in Chicago and was a regular performer on improvised radio show Radio Lols on Bondi Beach Radio hosted by Sam Lax.

Michael's writing and directing credits include co-writing an original cabaret called Caught Between the Sheets & Stage Lights, which was nominated for a Broadway World Sydney Award for Best Cabaret Performance in 2017. In 2019 he directed a staged reading of Jump for Jordan by Donna Abela at New Theatre & assistant directed Follow Me Home for ATYP, directed by Artistic Director Fraser Corfield. Michael has directed the short films I Love You Fish (Uni Shorts Film Festival - Best Short Film nomination 2013), All The Things You Could Have Been (Melbourne Underground Film Festival Official Selection 2018) as well as Omission and Samsara (Lift Off Sessions Official Selection 2020), both of which he wrote, directed and produced. In 2020 he wrote and directed a one act play called inner weather (Chippen St. Theatre) which played a sell out two week season to positive critical response.

Michael has a Bachelors degree in Theatre and a Masters degree in Directing for Film. He has completed acting, comedy and voice classes at The Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City, Stage Door School of Performing Arts, and the Hub Studio Sydney with Wayne Blair, Darren Gilshenan, Ben Matthews, Donald Woodburn, and Stevie Ray from McGregors Casting.
- IMDb mini biography by: Michael Becker

Went to kindergarten in Japan and spoke Japanese before English.