“A KING’S COLLEGE (for dead white men)”
In 2016, Michael wrote a musical satire about feeling like a fraud as a first-generation student at Columbia University, a historically white institution. Featuring the songs “I Belong Here,” “There’s A Dead White Man Inside Us All”, “Make Columbia Great Again,” “Notorious,” and “Defying Patriarchy.”
“First-generation student Jenny Park never truly felt like she belonged at Columbia U. With all the historically “great” alumni who went there, who wouldn’t feel insecure? So when the administration discovers that some students were admitted by mistake, she’s not the only one to get a bad case of impostor syndrome. Soon the whole school is turned upside down as a frazzled administration and an increasingly insecure student body turn to the past for the solution to their problems, putting their trust in Columbia’s legendary founder, King George II, who returns to expel the falsely admitted students and “Make Columbia Great Again.” With a witch hunt brewing, no one is safe.”
TV ANIMATION SONGWRITING:
Michael writes lyrics for Disney, Warner Bros, Sesame Street, and many other television programs.
Mandy Gonzalez, James Monroe Igleheart, Bobby Moynihan, Vanessa Bayer in “Sing With a Flower”
Eden Espinoza sings “Baking is a Breeze.” Lyrics by Michael Rodriguez