Michael A. Shea

Michael A. Shea is the son of David Shea and Judy Shea, the second oldest of their six children. He grew up in Branford, Connecticut and graduated in 1978 from Notre Dame High School in West Haven. His father was a long-time teacher, principal, and administrator in the West Haven public schools. Shea earned a degree in economics from the College of William & Mary in 1982 and a graduate degree in economics from the London School of Economics in 1983. He has worked as a management consultant, a Wall Street banker, and an activist in UAW Local 1981. He studied filmmaking and video production at the University of the Disrict of Columbia in the mid-1990s. Shea's first short film was "Dog" and it was shown on Maryland Public Television's Independent Eye series in 2001. His first short to be screened at a film festival, "Drive, He Said," debuted in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2005. He has been a producer at Arlington Independent Media since 2003. Michael Shea and Cathie Sullivan were married on Halloween in 1992. They have one son, Matthew Shea Sullivan.