Michael Alden: The Gift of Not Running Away

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I hope you enjoy this episode with my friend and colleague Michael Alden as much as I did. Although his resume reads like a who’s who of the entertainment industry, I invited him to speak with me because I’ve had the great pleasure of knowing Michael on a personal level and wanted to offer you the chance to learn about someone who is not only a great proponent of the arts but a thoughtful human being who strives to live a meaningful life of purpose. 

I’m certain that you will enjoy the rare insights into his journey from inventory boy to vice president of post production at MGM and so much more!

The episode was recorded on  January 21st. 

Michael Alden is a Tony Award nominated Producer whose career spans live theatre, cinema and television. He has been represented in the West End with David Seidler’s original play The King’s Speech and Bat Boy The Musical. On Broadway: Come From Away (2017 Tony Nomination & Olivier Winner for Best Musical),  Disgraced (2015 Tony Nomination for Best Play, 2013 Pulitzer Prize – Drama) Grey Gardens (2007 Tony Nomination for Best Musical) and Bridge & Tunnel (Special Tony Award).

His off Broadway and regional works include Not That Jewish, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Admit One, the Brochu-Schalchlin musical The Last Session, Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell, the Los Angeles productions of Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly,  and Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates directed by Judith Ivey.  

Alden's film works include: Just Cause with Sean Connery, the fashion forward documentary UnZipped for Mirimax, Stephen Daldry’s The Hours, the multi-award winning feature comedy Kissing Jessica Stein and Ralph Ziman’s foreign feature film The Zookeeper starring Sam Neill.

His current 2020/21 film production works include Ian Holt's supernatural thriller, Cursed and three feature-length documentaries, My Beautiful Stutter which follows five children from bullying to bravery, When Reagan Killed Roosevelt a film chronicling the formative years of famed rap group Public Enemy, and Just Say Yo! the never before told story of the rise of MTV Raps and their place in the rap revolution.

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