White, Mike 1970- (Whitey Michaels, Michael White)

PERSONAL

Full name, Michael Christopher White; born June 28, 1970, in Pasadena, CA; son of Mel White (an author, pastor, and gay rights activist). Education: Attended Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

Addresses:

Office—Rip Cord Productions, 5555 Melrose Ave., Dressing Room 115, Los Angeles, CA 90038. Agent—United Talent Agency, 9560 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Writer, producer, and actor. Rip Cord Productions, Los Angeles, CA, principal and producer.

Awards, Honors:

New American Cinema Award, best writer, Seattle International Film Festival, Acting Prize, best male performance, Deauville Film Festival, 2000, Independent Spirit Award (with Miguel Arteta and Matthew Greenfield), best feature—under $500,000, Independent Spirit Award nominations, best debut performance and best screenplay, Independent Features Project West, 2001, all for Chuck & Buck; Golden Satellite Award nomination, best screenplay—original, International Press Academy, Independent Spirit Award, best screenplay, 2003, both for The Good Girl; Sierra Award (with Sammy James, Jr.), best song, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, Critics Choice Award nomination (with James), best song, Broadcast Film Critics Association, 2004, both for The School of Rock.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Producer, Nacho Libre, 2006.

Director and producer, Year of the Dog, 2007.

Film Appearances:

(As Michael White) Carmel County writer, Star Maps, Fox Searchlight, 1997.

Buck O'Brien, Chuck & Buck, Artisan Entertainment, 2000.

Mr. Burke, Orange County, Paramount, 2002.

Corny, The Good Girl, Fox Searchlight, 2002.

Ned Schneebly, The School of Rock (also known as School of Rock), Paramount, 2003.

Himself, The Frank International Film Festival (short), Sundance Home Video, 2003.

Hank, The Stepford Wives, Paramount, 2004.

Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? (short), 2005.

Myron Stubbs, Smother, Inferno Distribution, 2007.

Himself, Heckler (documentary), 2007.

Television Work; Series:

Producer, supervising producer, and creative consultant, Dawson's Creek, The WB, 1998.

Supervising producer, Freaks and Geeks, NBC, 1999-2000.

Executive producer, Pasadena, Fox, 2001.

Executive producer, showrunner, and creator, Cracking Up, Fox, 2004-2006.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Presenter, The 2001 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards, Independent Film Channel, 2001.

Presenter, The 2004 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards, Independent Film Channel and Bravo, 2004.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Chip Kelly, "Kim Kelly Is My Friend," Freaks and Geeks, NBC, 2000.

Pet store employee, "Eric Visits," Undeclared, Fox, 2001.

Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC, 2007.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

Dead Man on Campus, Paramount, 1998.

Chuck & Buck, Artisan Entertainment, 2000.

Orange County, Paramount, 2002.

The Good Girl, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2002.

The School of Rock (also kwon as School of Rock), Paramount, 2003.

Nacho Libre, Paramount, 2006.

Year of the Dog, Paramount Vintage, 2007.

Vernon God Little, 2007.

Television Segment Writer; Specials:

Earth to America!, TBS, 2005.

Television Episodes:

Dawson's Creek, The WB, 1998.

"We've Got Spirit," Freaks and Geeks, NBC, 2000.

"Kim Kelly Is My Friend," Freaks and Geeks, NBC, 2000.

"The Little Things," Freaks and Geeks, NBC, 2000.

Pasadena, Fox, 2001.

Cracking Up, Fox, 2006.