Michael Angeli (born 1970/1971) is an American writer and television producer, best known for his award-nominated work on television series including Monk and the remake of Battlestar Galactica, a show for which he was also a co-executive producer.
Angeli was co-executive producer on Black Sails, a pirate adventure drama that premiered on the Starz Network in January, 2014.
Angeli is currently in pre-production on "The Confessions of Al McGuire," a biopic with Anthony Hemingway to direct.
Angeli is co-author of the autobiography of World Wrestling Federation performer Chyna. Angeli ghost-wrote My Lives, the Roseanne Barr autobiography (credited on the fly page).[citation needed] He profiled celebrity for such magazines as Playboy, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire.
As a free-lance writer, Angeli has covered sports and pop culture for The New York Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Details, and Sports Illustrated. An advocate of the participatory journalism elevated by the late George Plimpton,[citation needed] Angeli's exploits included spending 24 hours in Central Park, trying out for in-line Roller Derby, and a six-game road trip with The Los Angeles Lakers.
In July 2013, it was revealed that he has been working on a currently unannounced video game created by Santa Monica Studio.
Angeli is the co-executive producer of the 2019 CBS drama, "The Code" which debuted on April 9, 2019.
Fellow television writer/producer Jane Espenson has called his scripts "literary objects in their own right."
Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore:
As per an interview excerpt from So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica:
"Michael Angeli is a fascinating guy. During one interim period between the time that I was working at Universal and the time that they decided to develop Galactica into a series, they said, 'Until then, we would like for you to come in and work on another show called Touching Evil, which was a US version of a British show.' He was running the writers' room and I came in to write a script. That was how I met him. He is hilarious, cynical, and very well-read. He was a journalist earlier. But he has excellent chops as a writer." There's an intensity about it and the language is beautiful. Michael Taylor was a little bit later, and he's definitely a writer's writer. You read what he writes and you get totally sucked in...sometimes at the expense of the show, because you read it and you say, 'Wow, this is amazing!' And then you have to stop and think, 'Okay. Now does this actually work as an hour of television?' That's the kind of thing. But Michael is a lot of fun in the room. He has great imagination. He's not afraid to throw out [...]"
Excerpt From: Edward Gross & Mark A. Altman. “So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica.” iBooks.
References
123"Abel and Willing: New S9 episode". proboards.com. November 18, 2009. About Michael Angeli: LOCI's newest writer brings along a resume of substantive TV projects. Writing credits include Medium, Dark Angel, Touching Evil, and the short-lived revival of The Twilight Zone. Most recently he was co-executive producer and a lead writer for Battlestar Galactica (40 episodes). In 2009 he produced scripts for SVU (episode: "Users"); Monk, and In Plain Sight. A University of Wisconsin psych major, the 38-year-old Angeli—a one-time freelance magazine writer—is L.A. based. Currently he is writing a pilot (now in second draft) for a proposed original USA network series called John Q. Public.
↑Jane Espenson (May 17, 2008). "Learning From The Prose". JaneEspenson.com. Retrieved 2011-11-07. So did you see last night's new episode of Battlestar? This one, called Guess What's Coming to Dinner? was written by the amazing Michael Angeli...Angeli's scripts are always literary objects in their own right and if the Battlestar scripts are ever published, I encourage you to devour them.
