Michael Medico

Michael Medico started directing on a dare. While acting in TV, film and theatre for over 25 years, countless people told Michael he should direct but he never listened until fellow BU alum Krista Vernoff challenged him to write and direct a one-minute short for no money. As in zero. The short, entitled "Bitch.", premiered at Outfest and was a hit on the festival circuit before being named best short film of 2009 by Frontiers LA magazine. He was hooked. Over the next year, Michael directed seven more projects including co-creating and directing the web series pilot, "Paige a Day," starring Michaela Watkins, Holland Taylor, and Jason Biggs, and conceiving/directing the Father Tiger music video, "First Love," starring Noah Centineo and Blake Lee that received acclaim from both The Advocate and It Gets Better Campaign. While working on his own projects Michael shadowed 13 different directors on TV shows: most notably Mark Mylod and Debbie Allen. Michael got his first directing job on television on "The Fosters" directing three episodes in the last two seasons including the first part of the three-part Series Finale. In the meantime, his mockumentary short "Walk It Out" premiered at the Palm Springs Int'l ShortFest and his short "Divorce: The Greatest Hits" starring Jay Harrington, Beau Mirchoff, and Tracie Thoms premiered at the LA Int'l Shorts Festival. He's reunited with his "Fosters" family being the recurring director on the spin-off "Good Trouble" for Freeform while also supervising new directors on the show. He's worked with Sony on the reboot of "Party of Five" and Netflix' "Atypical" directing 3 episodes including the Series Finale. And he's directed multiple episodes of Shonda Rhimes' "Grey's Anatomy" and its spin off "Station 19" for ABC and Ryan Murphy's "9-1-1" and "9-1-1:Lone Star" for FOX. Michael has been busy developing the feature film Old and Ugly with scribe Jonathan Slavin for over a year. Michael brings to directing his years of experience working as an actor in NYC and LA. TV credits include: "Grey's Anatomy," "Grace and Frankie," "Will & Grace," "House," "Sex and the City," among many others. He also worked in some of the nation's top regional theaters including The Old Globe, Huntington Theatre Co., The McCarter, The Shakespeare Theatre, and Off-Broadway: LaMama. Michael received a BFA in Theatre from Boston University and was the recipient of their highest alumni honor: The 2010 Distinguished Young Alumni Award. He was also the creator and executive producer of Hot in Hollywood, a celebrity-driven benefit that raised more than half a million dollars in three years for domestic and international AIDS organizations. He lives in Los Feliz with his husband, Brian, their daughter and son, Everly Rose and Bowie, and two silly mutts, Lady and Charlie.