Michael Hayes

"Not all stories are entertaining, but all entertainment is based on the principles of storytelling. Beginning-middle-end, setup-pay off. However you define it or perform it, we've been telling stories to each other since the beginning of time.

I've been a storyteller since second grade. It's one of my earliest memories. It was an adventure tale about finding buried treasure. I think I've been trying to live that adventure ever since.

Every idea, every script, every dream I come across I think just may be a buried treasure waiting to be discovered. Entertainment can be shallow but it can also be profound. It not just can, but it does change the world. It's changing it right now."

Michael Hayes

Director of Entertainment Strategy

About Michael Hayes

Michael Hayes is a non-lawyer whose expertise in film development, production, and distribution makes him an ideal addition to the Spiller Law Entertainment Division. He is Spiller Law's Director of Entertainment Strategy.

Michael earned a Bachelors in Music from Berklee College of Music and a Masters in Creative Writing from Brown University. He has lived in Los Angeles for the last 20 years, writing scripts and producing films, while making life-long friendships with the most awesome people on the planet. In 2017, he founded a film sales agency, Prolific Pictures, with his wife who had a background in film sales and is the brains behind the business.

Having the great fortune of living a few lives, Michael has also been a bookkeeper and computer programmer by trade, a house renovator and car mechanic by necessity, a bread maker, pie maker and pizza raconteur by love and need for food and hobbies that don't involve a computer. Recently, he self-published a hardboiled detective mystery novella, called I Put a Spell on You, set in Los Angeles 2055, where life is cheap, the tech is glitchy and magic is real.