Michael Coady - Actor / Singer / Writer

2006 ARCHIVES

December 2006 - cast in a feature film reading of Royal Suckage, a dramedy chronicling the efforts of two stir-crazy young women to escape the dismal little Pennsylvania mining town and their lives of drugs and petty theft; playing the role of "Herbal" - a lovable pot-head, who tries to escape his demons to be the man his fiance hopes he can be. This script by Christina Ray won the Grand Prize at the 1997 Austin Heart of Film Screenplay competition, as well as the Cygnus Fellowship, which brought her to Hollywood in 1999 to workshop that screenplay with actors Gil Bellows, Lucy Liu, Jane Krakowski and Luke Perry, among others. This installment of the LIFT Out Loud Reading Series will be held on Wednesday, December 6 at St. Stephen's In The Fields Church (320 College St, west of Spadina) and will be moderated by DON McKELLAR.
December 2006 - shooting a trailer for the feature film, The Running of the Bulls, produced by Brian O'Dea. A dark comedy, character piece about the seedy under belly of the rickshaw world, packed full of action, violence and off-beat humour; cast as Dylan, a street smart con artist with a gutter mouth who learnt the hard way that life doesn’t give hand outs and you have to take what you want.
November 2006 - wrapped shooting "Vigilante", caused quite a stir from the rooftops in Toronto. Police responded to calls about an "unstable man in spandex" prowling around the rooftops of Cabbagetown. Pictures to follow.
October 2006 - cast in a short film, Vigilante, playing the lead role of "Hero", a man who, inspired by the comic book heroes of his youth, has taken justice (and spandex) into his own hands so as "to protect and serve" the public. It shoots in November.
October 2006 - cast as a member of the Provincial Health Team in a docu-drama on the Walkerton E-Coli tragedy, "We Can Rebuild You", shooting this month and airing on the Discovery Channel.
October 2006 - cast in a staged reading of the new TV Pilot script "Face to Face with Frank Hashmeyer" taking place at the Wildsound Reading series at The Pilot Tavern at Yonge and Cumberland on Tuesday, October 10, 2006.
September - October 2006 - cast in a short film, "Til Death Do Us Part", playing the principal role of "Crazy Bill", a thug involved in a double-crossing money scheme gone wrong.
July 11, 2006 - performing in a staged reading of the new film script "Purple Rinse" taking place at the Wildsound Screenplay Reading series at The Pilot Tavern at Yonge and Cumberland on Tuesday, July 11th.
July 8, 2006 - New Headshots have just been posted. Photographer - Nicholas Matthew
June 24, 2006 - participated in the Toronto 48 Hour Film challenge, taking a lead role in a short film that was written, shot and edited in 48 hours.
June 20, 2006 - New photos from the docu-drama, Zero Hour - North Hollywood Shootout have just been posted.
June 3, 2006 - finished shooting a short film entitled "Eight Years Later"; played a convict recently released from prison and re-united with the ex-girlfriend and co-conspirator, who 'sold him out' after their heist. Photos and video coming soon.
May 26, 2006 - New photos from Michael's first short film in Toronto, The Pregnancy, have just been posted.
May 11, 2006 - In addition to the role of Sgt. Rick Massa, cast in the large principal role of Detective Grimes on the docu-drama, Zero Hour - North Hollywood Shootout. Shooting wraps May 12th.
April 28, 2006 - cast in the docu-drama, Zero Hour - North Hollywood Shootout - a documentary about a much publicized attempted bank robbery in North Hollywood on February 28, 1997 which turned into one of the worst cases of urban warfare in US History; playing the principal role of Sgt. Rick Massa of the LAPD Swat Team, who in real life recieved a Medal of Valor in 1998 for his courageous actions during the shootout. Zero Hour - North Hollywood Shootout will air on Discovery Channel Europe and History Channel Canada. Shooting begins in May.

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