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MICHAEL L. GRACE is part of the award winning team that created the internationally performed award winning musical SNOOPY, based on PEANUTS by Charles M. Schultz. SNOOPY continues to be one of the most produced shows (amateur & stock) in Americaa/Worldwide and has had long running productions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in London’s West End. There are over 100 individual productions every year.He has written movies for TV, including the award-winning thriller LADY KILLER, various pilots and developed screenplays for Kevin Costner and John Travolta. Besides co-writing and co-producing SNOOPY, he wrote and produced the one-man play KENNEDY. He produced P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD by pulitzer prize winning author James Kirkwood and was associate producer at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. He wrote the stage thriller FINAL CUT which had productions in the UK, South Africa and Australia. His one-man play, KENNEDY - THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH, was developed for HBO and has starred Andrew Stevens, Gregory Harrison and Joseph Bottoms.He has recently been involved in European productions with CLT-UFA, Europe’s leading commercial television and radio broadcaster. He wrote MOWs THE DOLL COLLECTION, THE BOTTOM LINE and LAST WITNESS for German television. While in college and graduate school he worked as a foreign correspondent for COMBAT, the famous left wing Paris daily, and as a travel writer. He visited more than 50 countries. He returned to Hollywood, struggled as an actor, then entered the training program at William Morris, worked for Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager, at Paramount and MGM. He became a publicist, then followed as a story executive, working in the frantic horror genre period of the early 80s and wrote THE UNSEEN. He wen