WHO AM I?

I am a writer, filmmaker, and performer based in Los Angeles. As a gay city-dweller who spent his formative years in the Bible Belt, my work focuses on the overlooked intricacies of the queer coming-of-age experience. It often attempts to marry Southern Baptist spirituality with radical queer ideology. (All while being laugh out loud hilarious, of course.)

THROUPLE

Most recently, my feature film THROUPLE (which I wrote and star in) has been on its 2024 festival run. It’s an Official Selection at: Boston Wicked Queer (world premiere), Outshine Miami, Pink Apple, Sunny Bunny, Lovers, Zinentiendo LGBT Film Festival, Frameline, and Out on Screen: Vancouver Queer Film Festival.

Before its festival run, it was also selected for both the Tribeca Creators Market and onto the NYU Production Lab Slate.

Follow THROUPLE’s journey over on Instagram!

RONITA RAMBO

My follow-up feature film RONITA RAMBO is currently in development. If THROUPLE was my New York story, RONITA RAMBO finds me headed home, setting a new radical love story in the Evangelical south.

The script for RONITA RAMBO found semi-finalist status in the esteemed 2023 Academy Awards Nicholl Fellowship (one of only 150 scripts out of 5,599). It also advanced in the Sundance Feature Film Program Development Track.

MUSIC & PERFORMANCES

THROUPLE is set in the world of the underground Brooklyn music scene, because that was home for the entirety of my 20s. You can watch my band Darlin!’s music video for “Breathe” here.

I have also written and performed sold-out and acclaimed solo cabarets for Fringe Festivals in both New York City and Prague. My most recent solo show “Music! or, Another Gay Gives Up His Dream of Becoming a Popstar” premiered at the PIT’s 2023 SoloCom Festival to a sold-out crowd.

NOTABLE PRESS

“Throuples, queens & a gay rodeo: 10 must-see titles from San Francisco’s Frameline48 film fest”
”When a singer-songwriter named Michael starts making sweet music with a newly-open gay married couple, what starts off casual soon develops into something much more serious. But is that what’s best for Michael in the long run? Thrumming with energy on stage and in bed as well, this horny yet romantic depiction of polyamory reminds us to be open to all possibilities in life, wherever they might take us. And yes, that does include threesomes, but so much more as well.” - Queerty

“Queerguru’s TOP PICKS of MUST SEE MOVIES at FRAMELINE, San Francisco’s International LGBTQ+ Film Festival”
”Must see movie of Frameline…captivating.” -Queer Guru

“Few Bears in Sight But Frameline Still Has Worthy Options”
”Throuple was put on my radar by the buzz it’s getting…it’s inventive, real dialog and characters that are so endearing, it’s hard to resist.” -Bear World Magazine

“NYU Production Lab Announces New Slate of Films”
Press Release: THROUPLE joins the 2023 NYU Production Lab slate.

“New video from Conway native Johnny Darlin mashes up the church and the drag club”
The Arkansas Times reviews my music video for “Way With Words,” a mashup of the drag bar and the Baptist church, shot in Little Rock, Arkansas. They call it “a “sultry, glittering mashup of two of the places [Doshier] considers most holy.”

“Best Bet: Johnny Darlin: In the Closet”
Theatre Is Easy reviews my New York Fringe Festival show, “Johnny Darlin: In the Closet,” a pop music extravaganza celebrating interwoven stories of queer people coming into their own.

OTHER NOTABLE RECOGNITION

In 2023, my half-hour comedic pilot MUSIC! (an adaptation of my solo show) was one of the three winners of the Bad Pitch Group Labs Pilotpalooza competition. As such, it received a staged reading at The Hudson Theatre in Hollywood.

In 2018, my feature script BRANSON won the Missouri Stories Competition, a fellowship run by the Missouri Film Office to find and foster the best stories set within the state.

In 2013, I earned the Venable Herndon Award for Excellence in Screenwriting at NYU Tisch for my feature script MISTER SISTER.

CONTACT

Let’s collaborate! I’d love to hear from you.

Instagram: @MichaelDoshier 
Email: michaeladoshier@gmail.com