Michael Goi was born and raised in Chicago. As a director and executive producer he directed the pilot and first regular episode of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” for Netflix, executive produced and directed “The Rookie: Feds” for Disney/ABC, four episodes of “American Horror Story”, three episodes of “Big Sky”, eight episodes of “The Rookie” and many other shows. In the feature film world he wrote and directed the viral internet sensation “Megan Is Missing” which has been viewed by over 500 million people, and directed and photographed the feature film “Mary” starring Gary Oldman. As a cinematographer he has compiled over 75 narrative credits including five seasons of “American Horror Story”, and received four Emmy nominations and four ASC Award Nominations.  

Michael Goi is a three time past president of the American Society of Cinematographers, serves on the Board Of Governors of the ASC, and is the editor of the 10th Edition of the ASC Manual. He is the co-chair of the Directors Guild Of America’s Television Diversity Task Force, the Asian American Committee and the Special Projects Committee, and served as an alternate to both the DGA National Board and Western Directors Council. He is a member of the Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, and is the chair of the ASC’s Artificial Intelligence Committee.

Michael was accorded an Honorary Doctorate Of Arts degree by Columbia College Chicago, and has appeared as a guest speaker at the American Film Institute, the University of Southern California, Walt Disney Animation Studios (for whom he demonstrated ice and snow lighting concepts for animators working on the film “Frozen,”), CineGear, IBC, NAB, Camerimage and many other international industry events.