ANNOUNCEMENTS
(click on the links below for
additional information)
30 July-22 August 2010 Texas Radio Beat Boutique: My Window
Michael will create an art installation for Texas Radio's (Ponsonby Road, Auckland) window which will be in place for the first 3 weeks of August. Other artists will create their own installations for the months of April-September, and the public will vote for their favorite. Click here for more information.
31 July 2010 Celebrity guest on Seeded
(Wellington, 9:30 am on Radio Active, 89 FM; Dunedin, 10 am on Radio One, 91 FM; Auckland, 11 am on bFM, 95 FM; Christchurch, 2 pm on RDU, 98.5 FM; Palmerston North, 2 pm on Radio Control, 99.4 FM)
Michael talks about his musical inspirations (including Tchaikovsky, Brian Eno, The Front Lawn, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) on Seeded. Listen online here.
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August-18 September 2010: Happy
Days
Michael will direct Samuel Beckett's Happy
Days for Silo Theatre, starring Robyn Malcolm
and Cameron Rhodes. At Herald Theatre.
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October-20 November 2010: Cabaret
Michael
will direct Cabaret for
Auckland Theatre Company, starring Amanda Billing. At Spiegeltent
Salon Perdu.
Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Michael
will direct one episode of the 6-episode prequel of Spartacus: Blood and Sand for Starz Productions.
Bitch Slap available on dvd
The Bitch Slap dvd includes commentary by the film's producers and the three female leads, plus a 90-minute documentary, Behind Bitch Slap: Building a Better B-Movie. Michael
stars with Julia Voth, Erin Cummings, and America Olivo
in the American feature film Bitch Slap which
was filmed in California in March and April 2008. It
features Michael's Hercules co-star
Kevin Sorbo, with cameos by Xena co-stars
Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor. It
was written and produced by Eric Gruendemann
and Rick Jacobson, with Jacobson directing. First screened
at the Cannes Film Market on 16 May 2009, the film had its
world premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival on 14 September 2009 and
has since been shown at film festivals in Europe and the US. It had a limited theatrical release in January 2010, and is available as Video on Demand. See the
film's official website and the BitchSlapMovie
channel on You Tube. In the video below, Michael teaches "Bitch Slap 101," explaining the significance of Bitch Slap.
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