Michael Dennis Rourke

As a New York diarist, Michael's thoughts evolved into lyrics, and lyric writing brought him to Hollywood. Songwriting with collaborators while managing the rock band, THE FABLES, was most exhilarating. All the time that his life was being filled; his diary was, too In New York, his books THE THRESHOLD, were written and published. They are aimed at film. 

In his own words: 

"Youth in upstate New York was exciting with loving parents but peppered with arguments over money and alcohol. My undiscovered dyslexia shamed me before the latchkey years fostered a turbulent adolescence. Motorcycle crashes first limited me physically then a traumatic brain injury wiped away my twenty one year old memory. 

When the diary opened creative thought my rebellious spirit grew wings with alcohol and drug use. Walking away from true love and responsibility I chased freedom alone. My adventure in Hollywood collaborating with songwriting in a rock band only brought the biggest crash. At age thirty-six amid the ashes of broken dreams God’s gift of grace shocked and saved me, I was Born Again. Spiritually alive with God’s biblical truths my new awakened conscience contending with a world of lies. 

Stage acting was a phase of pretending I walked away from. By going to church the power of the Holy Spirit continued breaking sin’s patterns and obedient righteous living grew."