Michael Downend

Scriptwriter and actor for stage and television (Member: The Authors Guild, Writers Guild of America, Dramatists Guild, PEN) and Photojournalist (Member: ASMP, NPPA, EP). Licensed pilot: AOPA #460890. Also writes as Liam Tracey. Former US Marine and graduate British Royal Marine Commando School. Lives Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Writer/narrator of award-winning PBS documentary, A Journey to the Endless Mountains, Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water and other programs. Min, his play for radio, broadcast on NPR, is the first in a series about women-ordinary and heroic-commissioned by public radio. An American Wife, a stage play written in collaboration with his late wife, novelist, playwright and poet, Karen Blomain, premiered with an Equity production to sold-out performances at The Electric Theatre Company. Nora Hussey produced and directed An American Wife in Boston in spring 2012. Recipient of Rockefeller Grant for his play, The Mola Mola Fish and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Playwriti