Scripts

Michelle specializes in plays made for YA audiences and comedy pilots with sci-fi and fantasy elements. See below for loglines and more information.

Pilots

Space Correspondent!

Half-Hour Comedy Pilot

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.

• Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Comedy Competition 2024

• Semi-Finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition 2024

• Semi-Finalist, Filmmatic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Competition 2024

• Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship 2025

Failing Forward

Half-Hour Comedy Pilot

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

Four grown-up theater kids go back to their high school to solve the murder of their beloved drama teacher.

Just Happy to Be Here

Half-Hour Comedy Pilot

When a studio executive gets fired, she turns to the seasoned assistants she used to work with to take down her former boss.

Plays

Shakespeare for Kids!

Published Play for YA Audiences and Students

Originally co-written with Melissa Lyons 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 famous and obscure dramas and comedies. Shakespeare for Kids! has been produced at several schools in the United States and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.