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Specialized Admissions Consultant & Audition Coach for Artists

Whether you are an aspiring filmmaker, writer, performer or musician, we’ve got you covered!

Michael, a Brown & NYU alumnus and the President of  The Ivy Dream, is the only Ivy League educated university admissions consultant in the world who is also a professional cinematic and musical artist, with memberships in The Producers Guild of America, The Dramatists Guild of America, The Writers Guild of America and The Society of Composers and Lyricists, among other major entertainment industry organizations. His cinematic works are available for streaming on the three dominant Transactional Video-on-Demand platforms, Apple iTunes Films, Google Play Movies, and Amazon Video, in over 80 countries across six continents. His musical works are all streaming on Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, and on over 150 other platforms worldwide. He truly understands what it means to be an artist and therefore knows how to help structure clients’ audition portfolios to build on their greatest artistic strengths. Combined with his skills in university admissions consulting, his artistic abilities help clients to optimize their artistic and academic abilities in structuring top quality applications. Previous clients have obtained admission to NYU, Berklee, Juilliard, UPenn and the Rhode Island School of Design, among other excellent artistic schools.

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Michael, directing the cast of Mere Oblivion '22

For Filmmaking
Applicants

 As the director of five movies that have achieved global vetted distribution, Michael knows filmmaking. He knows how to structure films, even short student films, in ways that convey to viewers the applicants’ talent in the visual medium. He can apply this knowledge in the creation of applicants’ application movies.

For Music Applicants

As a professional music creator who has worked with musicians from several countries, Michael can discern talent and work with clients on their performance auditions. With little time to present their abilities, clients must use it showcasing themselves optimally. Michael works with our admissions clients on their audition techniques as he also does with professional performers on theirs.

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Michael has written all his movies and also the lyrics to all his songs

For Dramatic
Writing Applicants

As a member of the Writers Guild of America as well as the Dramatists Guild of America, the guilds for professional screenwriters and professional playwrights respectively, Michael is eminently qualified to assist our admissions clients prepare their writing samples on applications to top dramatic writing programs.

For Acting Applicants

As a film director, Michael is very experienced at directing cast members in rehearsals and on set. He knows how to bring out actors’ skills in conveying emotions necessary for particular scenes. Michael can help acting applicants identify and develop the several monologues that best present their talent for their audition reels.

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For Journalism 
Applicants

As the author of “The Chinese Way to Wealth and Prosperity” which was published by McGraw-Hill in 2012 and positively reviewed in The New York Times and The Mensa Bulletin, Michael is a professional writer. He is also an often published columnist whose articles have been featured in The Baltimore Sun, The Jerusalem Post, The Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Times, among other periodicals. He can help applicants develop writing samples that best reflect their talents to admissions committees.

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