Straight outta Westwood, Michael Golamco is a critically acclaimed, emerging young writer.

As a playwright, his work has been presented at such diverse places as The Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Joseph Papp Public Theater, and the Smithsonian Institution, as well as at theaters across North America.

In addition, “Cowboy Versus Samurai” has been published in part in Smith and Kraus’s “The Best Stage Scenes of 2006″ and in full in their anthology “New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2006″.

Both are available from Barnes and Noble and Amazon, as well as brick and mortar stores everywhere. His ten-minute play Heartbreaker is available in the anthology Best Ten Minute Plays of 2007, and more of his work is set to be published in Best-Of anthologies for 2008 and 2009.

Full length plays: Achievers, Cowboy Versus Samurai, The Shadow on the Moon, Year Zero, and Build.

Build was written under commission from actors Joel de la Fuente and Daniel Dae Kim; Year Zero was the Grand Prize Winner of Chicago Dramatists’ 2008 Many Voices Project and is set to be workshopped at Chicago’s Tony Award winning Victory Gardens Theater in Summer 2008.

Michael Golamco’s body weight is primarily concentrated in his abnormally large head. Hat shopping is a difficult endeavor. Also, most of his head is forehead.

Michael Golamco was selected by the Tribeca Film Festival for the All Access program in both Film and Theater. He was also a Top 50 Project Greenlight screenwriter, and was a top 15 finalist for the ABC/Disney Writing Fellowship.

“The Achievers”, his first independent feature film (co-written and directed by Abraham Lim) is currently touring film festivals around the country. His short film “Dragon of Love” (directed by Doan La, produced by Hieu Ho), was selected as Best Short Film at the Hawaii International Film Festival and is currently running in regular rotation on the Sundance Channel..

He is a member of the hot young L.A. Theater Company known as Propergander, and an alumni of LCC, UCLA’s Asian American theater company.

An avid jogger, Mike runs 32 miles a week.

Favorite snacks: Tuna, bannanas, toast, hard boiled eggs, and Twix.