Welcome to MichaelGiltz.com
Hi! Thanks for visiting my website. I'm an award-winning freelance writer based in New York City and I cover all areas of entertainment. Movies, music, books, theater, TV–you name it. I also cover politics, religion, LGBTQI+ issues and sports, among other topics.
I've done it all: been to the Cannes Film Festival for more than a decade running, reviewed Broadway shows, gone backstage at a U2 concert, covered American Idol when American Idol was cool (ok, popular), co-hosted a podcast covering the business of entertainment for 15 years and spoken with everyone from bull riders to scientists to circus clowns to MacArthur "genius" grant winners to tennis stars, politicians, activists and fellow journalists.
I've also conducted one-on-one interviews with some of the most famous and successful artists in the world including actors like George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Matt Damon, Ice Cube and Warren Beatty; writers like Jodi Picoult, David Hare, Laura Hillenbrand, Ray Bradbury, JK Rowling, Jeffery Deaver and Michael Cunningham; musicians like Grammy and Tony winner Duncan Sheik, India.arie, the B-52s, Laurie Anderson, Teddy Thompson, Cassandra Wilson and Rufus Wainwright; TV stars like Milo Ventimiglia, Keifer Sutherland, Lucy Lawless, Ray Romano, Wanda Sykes, Darren Criss, Simon Cowell and many more.
I've written thousands of features, reviews, opinion pieces, blog posts and more. My work has appeared everywhere from the New York Daily News to the Los Angeles Times, not to mention Huffington Post, The Advocate, Entertainment Weekly, Parade, New York magazine and many more. I've done countless interviews and given a lot of interviews as well. I've appeared on French, German and Basque television, NPR, Sirius XM, guested on podcasts and nationally syndicated radio shows and more.
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