Michael Cassutt, B.A.

Adjunct Faculty

213.740.3303
cass54@aol.com
LUC 301

Michael Cassutt is a writer of fiction and non-fiction for print and broadcast.  He has been a story editor or producer on thirteen different primetime televisions series, from The Twilight Zone and Max Headroom to Eerie, Indiana and the Showtime revival of The Outer Limits.  More recently he was executive consultant for USA Network's The Dead Zone. He has written freelance episodes of Stargate SG-1 and Farscape, among many others.

Cassutt’s fiction includes the novels Tango Midnight (2003), Red Moon (2001) and Missing Man (1998) as well as The Star Country (1986) and Dragon Season (1991).  He is the author of thirty published short stories.

Other works are Deke! From Mercury to the Shuttle, the autobiography of astronaut Donald K. “Deke” Slayton (1994), WE HAVE CAPTURE: Tom Stafford and the Space Race (2002), and the biographical encyclopedia Who's Who in Space (third edition 1999).

His monthly column about science fiction television, “The Cassutt Files,” appears on SciFi.Com.

Born in Minnesota and raised in Wisconsin, Cassutt received a B.A. in Radio-Television from the University of Arizona.