Michael Taylor Donovan
- Actor
- Producer
- Casting Director
A Northwest native, Michael has worked professionally in the entertainment industry for over thirty years. His extensive credits have afforded him a rare view of the inner-workings of commercial, television and film production from many different levels, which has been beneficial to the making of feature films. Michael comes to producing from the acting world, having performed in well over one hundred principal and leading roles both in film, television, commercials, videos, computer games and live theatre. Michael had worked many positions in the film and commercial business from SAG/AFTRA actor, stagehand with IATSE LOCAL 15, to stand-in, to production assistant, assistant director, casting director, location scout, grip, camera operator, all the way up to being a producer.
As a producer Michael has worked with various independent filmmakers. He started his producing stint over twenty years ago with Insanity Filmworks on the independent black comedy, Damaged Goods, which received international distribution through Panama Entertainment. Then he produced the independent short film, Continuum with British director, Jay Purcell with it's U.S. premiere screening held in Seattle. He followed that up producing the mockumentary short film, The Wind Cries Marty, with the very creative, Palmer Avery, and the breakout performance by Kristen Manning.
Most notably as an actor having had roles on such television shows as Northern Exposure, Nowhere Man, Unsolved Mysteries and Medicine Ball and in independent films such as Damaged Goods, The Falling, Project London, Lost on the B-Side, The Addict, The Antelope Chess Game, The Standard, and most recently The Narrow Road with the heartfelt Shawn Justice... as well as his zombified start in the CD ROM Game, Phantasmagoria ll: A Puzzle of Flesh... among many others.
As a producer Michael has worked with various independent filmmakers. He started his producing stint over twenty years ago with Insanity Filmworks on the independent black comedy, Damaged Goods, which received international distribution through Panama Entertainment. Then he produced the independent short film, Continuum with British director, Jay Purcell with it's U.S. premiere screening held in Seattle. He followed that up producing the mockumentary short film, The Wind Cries Marty, with the very creative, Palmer Avery, and the breakout performance by Kristen Manning.
Most notably as an actor having had roles on such television shows as Northern Exposure, Nowhere Man, Unsolved Mysteries and Medicine Ball and in independent films such as Damaged Goods, The Falling, Project London, Lost on the B-Side, The Addict, The Antelope Chess Game, The Standard, and most recently The Narrow Road with the heartfelt Shawn Justice... as well as his zombified start in the CD ROM Game, Phantasmagoria ll: A Puzzle of Flesh... among many others.
