Click on the highlighted hyperlinks for more about each project!

Click here for Mike Messier’s Amazon Author Page, Mike’s IMDB page, and Linktr.ee page.

Mike’s social media (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube) handle is “1 Mike Messier.” 

Mike’s books include his coming-of-age sports novel FIGHT OR PLAY BASKETBALL: Every Shot Counts (now available as an audiobook) and his gothic horror/ magic realism story A Distance from Avalon: when the Dying and the Dead Reunite.  Bad Girls with Good Tattoos is also available now on Amazon; click the titles above or scroll down for the links.

Having made his own movies since high school, Mike Messier has won over eighty awards as a producer, screenwriter, Director, TV host, and actor.  Mike has won Acting Awards from The Alternative Film Festival and Toronto’s Couch Film Festival. Mike’s silent horror film Disregard premiered at the Austin Revolution Film Festival. Mike’s book trailer/proof-of-concept video Many Keys – The Heartbreak Monologue premiered at the Fort Myers Film Festival.

Mike is also an experienced playwright, Acting Coach, Live Event Host, and guest speaker.

As an Actor, Mike has shared scenes with Meryl Streep  & Elisabeth Shue in Hope Springs, Mario Van Peebles, Wesley Snipes & Cybill Shepherd (as her son) in Hard Luck, and Frances McDormand & Richard Jenkins in Olive Kitteridge, among others.  Mike co-starred as Hank in the family comedy feature film Mr. Birthday, starring Eric Roberts.  

To read part two of Mike’s bio, click on Mike’s resume page.

Seduction of Distance wins Mike Messier an Acting Award!

Mike Messier’s Seduction of Distance short film has won the Best Actor Award from Toronto, Canada’s Couch Film Festival in the 1-5 minute film category

Seduction of Distance is a monologue derived from Mike’s A DISTANCE FROM AVALON when the dying and the dead reunite novel, screenplay, and stageplay. The recently remastered novel version can be purchased in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle. Those with Kindle Unlimited can read it for free! Click the link right here to order or to read a free preview!

FIGHT OR PLAY BASKETBALL: every shot counts

 

Check out Mike Messier’s new young adult sports novel FIGHT OR PLAY BASKETBALL: every shot counts, based on the Award-Winning screenplay, now available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle!

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Austin Revolution Film Festival hosts Mike Messier’s DISREGARD World Premiere

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The 12th Annual Austin Revolution Film Festival will host the World Premiere of Disregard, a silent short film directed by Mike Messier. The screening will be part of the Opening Night Late Night Cinema Block, on Thursday, February 15, starting at 9:30 pm in The San Angelo Theater in the Austin Southpark Hotel. Tickets for the screening and passes for the whole festival can be purchased on the Austin Revolution Film Festival purchase tickets page.