Other credits include the musical Unknown Soldier, which premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and had a critically acclaimed run at Playwright Horizons, Love’s Labour’s Lost, which premiered at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Musical, Saved, In the Bubble, The Brand New Kid, God's Ear, The Blue Demon and This Beautiful City.
He worked with Itamar Moses on The Fortress of Solitude, an adaption based on the Jonathan Lethem book of the same name.
[4] In the months leading up to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Michael traveled the country creating a series of songs based on interviews he conducted.
His work with The Civilians included Gone Missing, In the Footprint, The Great Immensity, Paris Commune (co-written with Steve Cosson), (I Am) Nobody's Lunch, and This Beautiful City; as well as the score for Anne Washburn’s critically acclaimed Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play.
His last collaboration with Civilians’ Artistic Director Cosson, The Abominables, opened at Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis in September 2017.
[6] At the time of his death, he was writing a commissioned work on American history for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a musical about the adult film industry with Bess Wohl and The Civilians titled Pretty Filthy.