Michael Wiener

Vocalist-lyricist, The Children...

As a vocalist, songwriter, actor, writer, curator and educator, Michael Wiener believes that the spirit of improvisation fuels the most fully-realized, incendiary art. Alongside his longest-running collaboration The Children…, Michael has a new avant-pop collaboration with composer Michael Schumacher and Jose Navas/Merce Cunningham/Stephen Petronio alum Cori Kresge—debuting publicly at Artist’s Space, TriBeCa, NYC, winter ’24. Michael has performed in and produced events at theaters and multidisciplinary venues across NYC and around the country, and, for 20 years, curated, produced and hosted a performance series in residency, first at the Gershwin Hotel, later at Dixon Place. He made a splash as the performative inspiration for the Magnolia Pictures release Hail Satan, among other turns in films receiving strong notices at Sundance, Tribeca, Comic Con and international festivals, including his latest, Stockade, as well as co-starring in Thermae, a psychoanalytic thriller in 22 one-minute episodes on Instagram, and a drug awareness PSA directed by Darren Aronofsky, as part of a campaign that garnered a Clio. He has worked extensively with video and performance artist Liz Magic Laser, and has published cultural criticism, essays and profiles in numerous New York and national magazines, newspapers and blogs. He earned an M.A. during the pandemic at Dartmouth College, channeling medical humanities and diaspora studies curricula into research papers delving into personal histories involving cultural memory, generational trauma, and public health’s intrinsically multi-factorial nature, and its correlation with mental health, including a screenplay soon to be published by Screen (Play) Press. https://www.instagram.com/thethermae/