Biography
Michael Colton is an American screenwriter, often working with John Aboud as Colton & Aboud. He received screenplay and story credits on the 2014 animated film Penguins of Madagascar.
Colton graduated from Harvard University in 1997, where he edited the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Crimson. He previously worked as a journalist for the Washington Post Style section and co-founded the comedy website Modern Humorist with Aboud. Their other film credits include The Comebacks (2007) and A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018). Television writing includes episodes of Leverage (2008) and Close Enough (2020), and Colton created Home Economics (2021).
