John-Michael Lyles is a guitar-wielding, Vivace Award winning, multi-hyphenate creative. As a writer, he was selected to participate in the Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellows class of ’21, Musical Theater Factory’s 2nd MAKERS Cohort, the 2021 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and the 5th Avenue Theater’s First Draft: Raise Your Voice commission. He wrote additional music for the Second Stage production of Young Jean Lee’s We’re Gonna Die & theme music for The Great Gay Dadcast. He is currently co-writing book, music and lyrics with David Gomez for Shoot for the Moon, which was a 2023 finalist for the Relentless Musical Theater Award.