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Michael Swiskay

Award-Winning Writer for Film & Theatre

Nine Tenths of the Law (Link to short film)

October 5, 2019October 5, 2019 MSwiskayShort Film

The siblings don’t get along and their once wealthy father has died with no will as brother and sister battle over the last item of value; a 500 year old collectible guitar crafted by an eminent Cremona artisan.

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Across

July 28, 2019 MSwiskayShort Film

In a world of indulgence, can the connection between a successful man and woman, both quintessentially superficial and self-absorbed, endure?

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Bujama Dreams

November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 MSwiskayFilm

After they get split up by a nasty misunderstanding, the superstar salesman travels to Latin America where his adventure there compels a return home to rescue the charming lady accountant from a dating wasteland (Co-Written with  Braeden Mass).

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Enterprising

November 29, 2018January 17, 2019 MSwiskayFilm

In his world where everybody’s got something to sell, the African-American financier boldly navigates tacit racism and triumphs over scandal incited by a nasty Hedge Fund manager and economic collapse while an Amsterdam Red-Light-District prostitute enchants him…

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Orbiting Esmeralda

November 29, 2018October 6, 2019 MSwiskayFull-Length Versions for Both Stage and Film

After Egon kills himself at an auction of his painting, the childless and eminent art curator Esmeralda obsesses about maternity, it vetoed by her fiercely anti-paternal husband while the global economy collapses.

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The Whatever Show

September 24, 2015September 28, 2015 MSwiskayWeb-TV Series

There is much that demands comment. This Web-TV series….

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Awards

July 15, 2015October 21, 2015 MSwiskayAwards

The film version of the script ‘Orbiting Ezmerelda’ has just been named a finalist in ‘Evolution, Mallorca International Film Festival      

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What’s My Phobia

May 13, 2015August 23, 2015 MSwiskayShort Stage

The new hit game show is What’s My Phobia where the winning contestant will have figured out what scares the guest. Swifty Hasbern, an octogenarian, is a washed up Hollywood actor. Julietta Guittierrez, a middle aged Mexican woman and Menachim Goldstein…

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Traitors

August 5, 2012August 13, 2016 MSwiskayFull-Length Stage

A Jewish quantitative trading wizard is thrown into a maelstrom of waspy Wall Street greed and deceit as he triumphs over insincerity and avarice to ‘get the girl’…

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The Meaning (Link to video of live performance)

May 20, 2011October 5, 2019 MSwiskayShort Stage

After the drug/drink induced crash kills the French coke whore during her mobile fellatio and demolishes his sports car, the young and decadent urban achiever will soon learn that youth can be ‘wasted on the young’.

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Cannibals

May 8, 2011February 28, 2019 MSwiskayFull-Length Versions for Both Stage and Film

After university graduation, an intelligent and principled Adonis takes a job with a “headhunter” and triumphs over unscrupulous colleagues as he “gets the girl”, a Westernized Muslim whose devout twin introduces a farcical collision of Western and Muslim cultures.

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Dis-Admission

May 8, 2011June 4, 2016 MSwiskayShort Stage

The door to the gate has been closed but the barred from boarding entomologist’s insect specimens which carry a virulent virus are in his checked baggage!

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Games

May 8, 2011June 22, 2016 MSwiskayShort Stage

Is life a zero-sum game?

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Pumps

May 8, 2011July 25, 2015 MSwiskayShort Stage

Dr. Pat Scarahm is a cardiologist who is the front man in human heart smuggling ring. Under the pretense of taking over his practice, he has set up shop in Dr. Thrawn’s office, Dr. Thrawn the first victim in the scheme…

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Encounters

May 8, 2011July 25, 2015 MSwiskayShort Stage

Random encounters of a man & woman are punctuated by snappy dialogue of need, desire, innuendo & defensivness…

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Allahu Akbar

May 8, 2011September 25, 2015 MSwiskayShort Film

After a porn emporium encounter, it will take a bolt of lightening to resolve the conflict between two cross dressers, one an Arab Terrorist and the other an acrobat..

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