Michael Swanson

Emmy Award winner Michael Swanson is a Hollywood TV studio executive movie producer and theatre producer He is also a visionary entrepreneur and president and CEO of the entertainment company Faith Filmworks As senior vice president of production at Universal Studio Group Michael is the studio executive responsible for the production of Universal Televisions Parks and Recreation Hacks The Good Place Brooklyn NineNine Good Girls Never Have I Ever Community and Master of None Throughout his distinguished career in entertainment Michael has produced movies to critical and audience acclaim including Albany Road All About You All About Us For the Love of Ruth To Hell and Back Andraé Crouch Making The Journey Two Seasons Notre Dame First Time Fans Legacy The Wayman Tisdale Story and Fannie On Broadway Michael is involved with the Tony Award winning hit musical Aint Too Proud The Life and Times of The Temptations the upcoming Hippest Trip The Soul Train Musical and the first Broadway revival of Ntozake Shanges groundbreaking choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf This celebrated work garnered 7 Tony Award nominations including Best Revival of a Play Michael is currently developing and producing the Broadway and West End bound musical Ill Be There about Motowns Four Tops After attending Princeton Theological Seminary Michael joined NBCs Must See TV national primetime sales team in New York City that sold commercial space for toprated NBC shows including Seinfeld ER Friends Frasier and The Fresh Prince of BelAir This sales team became the first in broadcast television to book over 22 billion in upfront advertising revenue Earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Television and Theatre from the University of Notre Dame Michael was chosen by the Notre Dame Alumni Association as The Rev Arthur S Harvey Award recipient acknowledging his achievements in the arts Michael serves on the board of directors for Wedgwood Circle FEAST Success Through Education Program and is a member of Notre Dames Performing Arts Advisory Council the Coalition for Faith and Media and the Academy of Television Arts Sciences A South Side of Chicago native Michael resides in Los Angeles with his wife filmmaker Christine Swanson and their four children