The Art of Our Necessities

MICHAEL RIDER is a poet, musician, writer, and actor. He has a long list of professional stage, film and television credits, best known for his appearances in ROAD HOUSE and STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION. He studied acting at Juilliard with classmate Robin Williams, film-making at NYU, and poetry writing at UCLA. His autobiographically inspired stories are of riverboats, jailbreaks, backtracks, heartbreaks, motorcycles, barrooms, and backstage dramas - moving from the funky upper west side of N...