Michael Golamco

Michael Golamco is an American playwright, screenwriter and TV writer. He is of Filipino and Chinese American descent.

Achievers (2001) was Golamco's first full-length play, and was read publicly in New York City by theater group Second Generation Productions. In 2001, a full production of the play was put on by a theater group called "Propergander" that included Randall Park, Vivian Bang, Tim Chiou, Eddie Shin and others. The play was then produced at other universities including Dartmouth College (the first university performance), Cal Poly Pomona, UC Berkeley and in 2005, Stanford University.

In 2006, Golamco wrote a feature film screenplay version of the play, which was turned into a film directed by Abraham Lim (who also helped co-write the screenplay), and which also starred Randall Park, Tim Chiou, Samantha Quan, and others - the film received positive reviews from publications such as Variety, which called it a "a divertingly loopy experience by turns deadpan, surreal, and quietly poignant" with "cleverly interwoven plot strands, a lively mix of visuals, spot-on perfs and a cool soundtrack".

Currently in development, The Shadow of the Moon is a self-described "hard-edged comedic and dramatic exploration of the link between religious awakening and mental illness." In August 2005, the play was publicly read in New York City with the theater company Second Generation Productions.

Golamco's play Cowboy versus Samurai (2005) has run with the National Asian American Theater Company in New York, receiving favorable reviews from the New York Times. The play was also produced in Seattle as well as in Canada at the Vancouver Asian Canada Theater company and in Hong Kong by Looking Glass Productions. The Los Angeles premiere of the play will be produced and staged by Artists at Play in the Fall of 2013. The Los Angeles premiere from Artists at Play was directed by Peter Kuo, and starred Feodor Chin as Chester, West Liang as Travis Park, Julia Cho as Veronica Lee and Daniel Vincent Gordh as Del (the last two cast members also being from the Emmy-award winning webseries The Lizzie Bennet Diaries). The play has also been produced in Minneapolis (by Mu Performing Arts), Seattle (by SiS Productions), San Francisco (by the Asian American Theater Company), San Diego, California (by Mo’olelo), and Dallas, Texas.Cowboy Versus Samurai was also selected by the Tribeca Film Institute for its All Access Open Stage Program, and is available in print in Smith and Kraus’s New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2006 and The Best Stage Scenes of 2006.

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