Scripts
Michelle has often specialized in plays made for YA audiences and screenplays with sci-fi and fantasy elements. She is currently studying television writing at the LA Writers Center, where she has developed the comedy pilot samples below.
Plays
Shakespeare for Kids!
Published Play for YA Audiences and Students
Originally co-written when Michelle was in high school and adapted over the years, Shakespeare for Kids! is a fun way to introduce Shakespeare to beginners or students, with two narrators who lead the audience through many of the most famous and obscure dramas and comedies. It has been produced at several schools in the United States and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.
Pilots
Space Correspondent!
Half-hour Comedy Pilot Script Sample
When a reckless space correspondent stows away on a mysterious spaceship, she must win over the crew and work with her nemesis to save their missing friend—and maybe the entire galaxy along the way.
Failing Forward
Half-hour Comedy Pilot Script Sample
When they discover how to time travel on their 40th birthday, twins Poppy and Larry must journey through time to find their parents and save their town—ideally before they cause the end of the world.
A Murder on Drama Night
Half-hour Comedy Pilot Script Sample
Four grown-up theater kids go back to their high school to solve the murder of their beloved drama teacher.