Michael Scimeca was born on Long Island in New York. While living there, he spent his first 30 years pursuing his love for music and theater. As a musician (guitarist/singer/songwriter) and performer (member of The Red Stocking Revue), he spent many years in front of live audiences. In 1989, he moved to Atlanta to pursue his interests in natural health and healing. In 1993, he earned his doctorate degree in chiropractic. Over the past 20+ years, Dr. Michael has been leading seminars and presenting programs helping people and organizations achieve greater levels of health and success. After starting a family and watching his children move into the entertainment field, he returned doing live theater, most notably playing John Spencer in Earl Hammer, Jr.'s "The Homecoming" and Murray the Cop in Neil Simon's "Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple." He appeared in many movies over the past few years. As an in-demand actor, what was Michael's favorite phrase? "Let's do this!" Today, he has become more selective in accepting roles, looking more at content and production rather than roles. For that reason, he has taken a wait-and-see approach to acting, waiting to see if the right people and projects come along to inspire him to continue on his path of excellence.
Michael has always been a creative vortex. Besides having written over 600 songs, he is the author of the book, The Guardian Within, the developer of Catalyst, and the mastermind for many progressive wellness programs, including The Blue Weekend, Neuro-Spinal Integration, Successions, and Guardianology.
Michael's first love was music, being strongly influenced by the Beatles. In the seventies, he musical range expanded to include many different genres within rock and pop to classics and crooners. He picked up the guitar after graduating high school and went on a writing frenzy from 1977-1989.
After suffering from a condition (mitral-valve prolapse), he was helped through chiropractic and was so impressed with the healing capacity of a body in proper alignment that he dedicated the 90's to the study and practice of chiropractic, while keeping a semi-close connection to his music, writing new songs every now and then.
In 1998, his wife, Allison, passed away. At that time, his children were five and two. After being a single father for nine years, he remaine, marryingFrances in 2007. During his toughest years, he found great strength in giving back and working with people who had lost their way, thus he became a greater, more powerful positive force.
His son, Tony, plays guitar and keyboards and writes and produces his own original music. His CD Kite is available on iTunes as well as other places. His daughter, Jule, sings and has fiddled with the ukelele years ago. Thomas, his youngest, plays the bass guitar. While Michael was enjoying his life with Frances, he was moved by the movie "City Island" starring Andy Garcia, which inspired him to return to theater. From there, he quickly ventured into movies where he made a name for himself and was chosen as one of Atlanta's top "new" actors. After getting an offer from the number one talent agency in the southeast, he realized he couldn't leave his practice to make movies nationally and internationally as so he stopped as quickly as he started after deciding he was never going to sign that contract.
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