Michael Antony Pierce is an independent filmmaker living in Southern California. He has produced, directed, written, and acted in award winning short films and received rave reviews for his roles on stage.
A third generation Pastor's son, he was raised in Illinois in a strong protestant household. At seventeen he joined the Army Infantry and served his tour with distinction. In his two year active duty contract he was promoted three times, met the then current President of Haiti Pres. Jean Bertrand Aristide, received two Army Achievement Medals, and a Good Conduct Medal.
After returning to Illinois he became involved with music. With a group of friends he formed a music production company and began producing a variety of R&B and Hip-Hop local acts along with his own R&B singing group "Sylohet." Eventually he became disillusioned with the music business and returned to school.
At college he, quite by chance, was cast in his first play..."A Raisin in the Sun." He was bit by the bug and fell in love with acting, and visual storytelling in general, from that moment on. He then began studying on his own supplemented with acting classes for non majors. He voraciously read any book he could on acting to production. Each of the next five plays he auditioned for he was cast in and he (again by happenstance) was brought into local independent commercial and film projects.
Since moving to Southern California he has continued to broaden his skill set and work towards a steady and successful career in visual storytelling.
