Michael Attardi:  

Life Michael D. Attardi, Sr. Award-winning Director, Screenwriter and Lyricist, Michael D. Attardi, Sr. was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, where he excelled on the athletic field as well as in the classroom. Always having a passion for the arts and sports, the New Jersey All-State and All-Shore choir’s were his first musical accomplishments. This experience, led him to full length musical composing. In his junior year of high school, Michael was accepted as a gifted student to the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey where he won the Philip Turner creative award in music. Composing Big Band/ Swing music at the age of 17, he completed 18 Big Band arrangements, which were orchestrated at Monmouth University in 1985. When all of this was going on, Michael was able to make the All-Shore Football team and broke all of his high school kicking records at Long Branch, NJ. Awarded the special team’s player award in football in 1985, Michael was granted an Athletic/Academic scholarship to Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Where he broke 7 university kicking records and was named to the Kodak All-American football teams in 1987 and 1988. Appearing in 5 musicals during his college career, Michael also wrote three screenplays, which were produced by the University Players at Montclair State University. As the youngest winner of the Eugene Stein Musical Award in 1989 for best original University Musical, he also won the Lyndon B. Johnson Congressional Scholarship award and worked for Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. and Congressman Joseph Kennedy, Jr. on Capital Hill for a semester. Michael majored in English and Musical Theatre in 1991from Montclair State University. In 1991, Michael signed a contract with the National Football League and played two seasons with the Los Angeles Raiders, followed by the Dalla...Expand for more