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Michael Pressman with his wife Lisa Chess at the Interact Theater in North Hollywood where they are filming a movie written and directed by Michael... French actress Claudette Colbert with husband Joel Pressman attends an event in Los Angeles, California.
Pressman also directed the final two hours of the Emmy-nominated TV mini-series Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, starring Edie Falco and Heather Graham. Most recently, Pressman executive produced the fifth and sixth season of NBC’s Chicago Med. He left the series after the first year of the pandemic.
- Carnegie-Mellon University
- Maia Danziger
- Director, producer, actor
- 1976–present
Michael spent more than 30 years as a national broadcast journalist for both ABC News and NBC News, on programs that included ABC News 20/20, Dateline NBC, and the Today show. Mostly working in “long-form”—news magazines and documentaries—as a producer, director, and writer, he is the recipient of the Overseas Press Club’s Edward R ...
Nov 8, 2003 · 1 Video. 3 Photos. Comedy. Television director and producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage, keep running afoul, and everything's threatened by their difficult male... Read all.
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- Comedy
- Michael Pressman
- 2003-11-08
The back story: Pressman and his wife, actress Lisa Chess, had talked for years about doing something professionally together in the theater. In late 2000, they finally decided on Terrence McNally’s “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,” she acting, he directing.
Producer Alice West, director Michael Pressman and his wife actress Lisa Chess attend the Los Angeles Premiere of "Frankie and Johnny are Married" on May 26, 2004 at the Landmark Theatre, in Los... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images.
