Editor
 MICHAEL L. GRACE is part of the award winning team that created the internationally performed award winning musical SNOOPY, based on PEANUTS by Charles M. Schultz. SNOOPY continues to be one of the most produced shows (amateur & stock) in America/Worldwide and has had long running productions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in London’s West End. There are over 100 individual productions every year.He has written movies for TV, including the award-winning thriller LADY KILLER, various pilots and developed screenplays for Kevin Costner and John Travolta. Besides co-writing and co-producing SNOOPY, he wrote and produced the one-man play KENNEDY. He produced P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD by pulitzer prize winning author James Kirkwood and was associate producer at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. He produced touring companies of NINE, FALSETTOS and MY ONE AND ONLY. He wrote the stage thriller FINAL CUT which had productions in the UK, South Africa and Australia. His one-man play, KENNEDY – THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH, was developed for HBO and has starred Andrew Stevens, Gregory Harrison and Joseph Bottoms. He has recently been involved in European productions with CLT-UFA, Europe’s leading commercial television and radio broadcaster. He wrote MOWs THE DOLL COLLECTION, THE BOTTOM LINE and LAST WITNESS for German television.
While in college and graduate school he worked as a foreign correspondent for COMBAT, the famous left wing Paris daily, and as a travel writer. He visited more than 50 countries. He returned to Hollywood, struggled as an actor, then entered the training program at William Morris, worked for Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager, at Paramount and MGM. He became a publicist, then followed as a story executive, working in the frantic horror genre period of the early 80s and wrote THE UNSEEN. He went onto write for episodic television and develop series pilots. He was a continuing writer on such series such as LOVE BOAT, HART TO HART, PAPER DOLLS, SEARCHERS, DOC, KNOTS LANDING, LEAD DETECTIVE, etc.. He developed screenplays for such major award winning directors as Nicolas Meyers, Tony Richardson and J. Lee Thompson. He has written for all the major networks and studios. He has been hired numerous times as a script doctor, doing many uncredited rewrites on TV movies and features. He is currently finishing a novel. A thriller set in San Francisco. He was raised in Los Angeles. He attended St. Paul’s, University of California, the Pasadena Playhouse, and received a B.A from San Francisco State University. He is listed as a SFSU leading alumni. He also apprenticed at ACT – The American Conservatory Theatre and was going to be an actor. For a brief period he had intentions of becoming an Episcopal(Anglican) priest and attended seminary at Kelham Theological College in the UK. When “the calling” wasn’t there, he left seminary and did graduate work at the American University of Beirut. He has guest lectured at USC, UC San Diego, McGill, Univ. of London and the Univ. of Texas on the business aspects of making a living and surviving as a writer, focusing on development hell in the Hollywood entertainment industry. Grace is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, the Dramatist Guild, former regional chairman of the Steamship Historical Society of America, former chairman of the AIDS Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and is currently a member of the San Francisco State University Foundation. He resides in Pasadena and Palm Springs, California. |