Michael Zielinski

Michael Zielinski has written three screenplays - Targeted, Workaholic Romance and Christmas Past and Present. Targeted has been optioned by Nick Annunziata of Il Toro Productions. Zielinski's screenplay was accepted as a finalist in the 2021 Oaxaca Film Fest Pitch Fest and accepted into the 2021 Hollywood Blvd Film Festival where it was named Best Comedy Screenplay for March 2021. Workaholic Romance was selected to be included in the 2020 Beverly Hills Film Festival, won the Silver Prize for Comedy in the 2019 Hollywood Screenplay Contest, was a finalist in the Pitch Now Screenplay Competition, was a semifinalist in the 2021 Miami Screenplay Awards, a quarterfinalist in the 2021 Wiki Screenplay Contest and a quarterfinalist in the 2022 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards. Christmas Past and Present was a semifinalist in the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards; had one scene performed at the Los Angeles Feedback Film & Screenplay Festival and another scene (judged best scene) performed at the Los Angeles Romance Film & Screenplay Festival. Zielinski has written 12 plays that have been produced by the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in New York City: Workaholic Romance, The Pickup, He's Your Daddy, Accidental Christmas Romance, Clerical Matters, Critical Mass, Sister Mary and the Pagan Babies, The Audible, The Confession, Dinner for Three, Stuck and Stalked. He also has written and published two novels, Jack Daniels on the Rocks and A Pitch for Love.