Michael Grady has written the book for the musicals Baylin’s Monster and Phenomenal Smith and musical adaptations of A Christmas Carol and Studs Terkel’s American Dreams: Lost and Found. His play Dancers won the American College Theatre Festival’s National Collegiate Playwriting Award, and is published by Samuel French. His play The Harmony Codes was selected to the Sundance Playwright’s Lab and had its World Premiere at The Purple Rose Theatre (Michigan). His play Lights premiered at the Actors Co-op in Los Angeles. He has a bachelor’s degree in Theatre from Michigan State University and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Theatre from the University of Arizona. His works have been performed at Actor’s Theatre of Phoenix, Arizona Theatre Company, Childsplay, a.k.a. Theatre, Borderlands Theatre (AZ); the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.) the Organic Theatre (Chicago), and Philadelphia Theatre Company.
His first novel, Breaking Ball was published in 2022, and he recently co-wrote the book for the new musical, A Beautiful Place, with wife Linda DeArmond Grady. As an actor, he has appeared in more than sixty productions, with favorite roles including Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Evans in Terra Nova (Michigan State University); Jody in Lonely Planet and the Narrator in More Fun than Bowling (Actors Theatre of Phoenix).