Michael Picarella Email & Phone Number

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United States

Santa Clarita, Ca, Us

Jack-o'-Lantern Press in an online monster humor network by monsters for monsters, which includes news, stories, a podcast and videos. Check it out at JackoLanternPress.com.

I create content for print, web, movies and TV.

I currently write a critically acclaimed family humor column as a freelancer for The Acorn Newspaper group of five publications. I was a reporter at The Acorn for six years, reporting news and writing features and other columns, including a popular interactive traffic column and a man-on-the-street column. I was also assistant to the editor for a number of years, sat in as editor on a regular basis and created editorial cartoons. As a reporter, I covered President George W. Bush, VP Dick Cheney, Hollywood celebrities and other notables. My work appeared on the Drudge Report, was used as background for KFI news reports and lead to HuffPost Live contacting me for an interview about animal cruelty in circuses as it pertained to a story I wrote.

From the pages of JackoLanternPress.com, this travel guide takes you on a humorous tour through Transylveinya’s 13 wild and deadly districts, including Witches Meadow, the Mad Science District, Werewolftown, Bigfoot National Park, UFO Springs and Jack-o’-Lantern Park. Along the way, revel in monster culture and monster movies (those popular and those not so popular), and discover the true birthplace of Halloween.

"Dads Behaving Dadly 2" is the sequel to the successful anthology of stories by dads who tell about what it's like to be a dad. Prof. Brad Harrington, Executive Director of Boston College Center for Work and Family, says the stories in this second collection "vividly capture the experiences, responsibilities and the opportunities today's fathers are confronting - and thriving at." Jessica DeGroot, Founder and President of ThirdPath Institute says this book is "chock full of authors literally rewriting the narrative of what it means to be a modern father." I'm one of those authors.

I share 70 collected stories and a fistful of family bits from my Southern California-based columns, "Family Men Don’t Wear Name Brands" in The Acorn Newspapers and "Picarella Family Report" in The Signal. Chris Erskine of the L.A. Times says, "Picarella's wry observations on fatherhood and American life are spot-on. Consider his light and heartfelt essays to be a user's manual for dads."

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I worked on a number of movies and mini series for the Hallmark Channel and for NBC in various capacities. I worked as a script coordinator, an assistant production coordinator and as an AC.

Santa Clarita, Ca, Us

I wrote content as a freelancer for this daily publication.

I wrote and directed two feature films with NP. Both films received critical acclaim. The first film, "1 2 3," was an official selection in various film festivals. Both titles are available for purchase on DVD. I also co-created and wrote and directed a TV show and various short films in association with NP.

I worked as lead writer, director and brand manager at Nappic. There I helped build business brands. I created marketing materials, including commercials, viral ads and public relations campaigns. In 2007, I wrote and directed a viral ad campaign for TaxBrain.com depicting the theft of race car before a live crowd, a stunt that was publicized in the national media, earned high online video honors and more than tripled TaxBrain’s business. The campaign made it into MarketingSherpa’s Viral Hall of Fame and, as a result, the Effie Awards asked me to judge the top marketing campaigns of the year.

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Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Motion Pictures And Video

Visual Storytelling

Journalism

Creative Writing

Certificate, Into The Darkness: Investigating Film Noir

Certificate, Painfully Funny: Exploring Slapstick Ion The Movies

Playwriting And Screenwriting