Gabe Michael

Gabe Michael is an American AI filmmaker, creative technologist, producer, director and writer, and best known as a former member of the Epic Rap Battles of History crew. Michael was awarded the International Academy of Web Television Award for his work as the producer of the Technium series.

Education Michael holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles's Producers Program and an undergraduate degree in Film & Electronic Art from California State University, Long Beach.

Career Michael worked as a producer at the now-defunct digital media company Break Media and at Maker Studios, where he oversaw the Epic Rap Battles of History vertical. In March 2014, Forge Apollo created the digital series Technium which was hosted by YouTuber Lana McKissack. Michael received the 2015 IAWTV Award in the Best Writing (Non-Fiction) category for his work on Technium. In the same year, Michael directed the Evolution of the Bikini Viral Video for Hyatt's Breathless Resorts & Spas brand. The video was also featured by media outlets, including Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan.

In 2016, the Forge Apollo YouTube channel screened the animated comedy Cubicle Zombies, co-created by Michael, Adam Jones, and Adam Weinstock.

In 2023, Michael wrote, directed, and edited Midnight Television, a sci-fi short that blends 1980s nostalgia, emerging 1990s tech, and today's internet culture to explore themes of loneliness. In June 2024, Michael's AI short Let Us Explore, which utilizes AI in a unique form, was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, and won Best Character at Runway's Gen:48 Second AI Film Competitions.

Michael currently serves as the Vice President and Executive Producer of AI at Edelman.

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