Michael Lazarou

Michael Lazarou (born March 17, 1960, in Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television writer/producer. Lazarou began his career as story editor for the half-hour television comedy Doogie Howser, M.D. and the one-hour drama The Untouchables. He wrote the screenplays for the TV movies Heat Wave and Possessed, and for feature films Take the A Train and Satin Doll.

He adapted his semi-autobiographical novel Criminal Law into a film for HBO. This was followed up with The Stanford Prison Experiment, originally developed for television for HBO, but later acquired by Artisan Entertainment as a motion picture.

Lazarou, is dyslexic and dysgraphic and was unable to read or write until he was nearly ten years old. He is a graduate of UCLA, New York University and the AFI Center For Advanced Film Studies.

After a four-year career absence due to a near-fatal kidney ailment, he returned to establish High Road Productions with wife Charisse McGhee, a former Vice President of Primetime Series at NBC and Lifetime Television.