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name: "Michael Starrbury"
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average_as: "producer"
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updated: "2026-09-17T13:54:05.437602+00:00"
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# Michael Starrbury

Producer. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71705270, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1841065/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1140270

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*When They See Us*](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md) (84)

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## Biography

Michael Starrbury is an American screenwriter and producer. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he moved to Minnesota as a teenager and is based in the Twin Cities area. He began his career writing short films and received multiple IFP/McKnight Artist Fellowships for Screenwriters.

Starrbury wrote the 2013 feature *The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete*. He created and wrote the Comedy Central series *Legends of Chamberlain Heights* (2016–2017), on which he also acted. His other credits include the teleplay for the *When They See Us* (2019) episode 'Part Four' and writing episodes of *Colin in Black & White* (2021).

He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series for his work on *When They See Us*. Starrbury has collaborated with Ava DuVernay on multiple Netflix projects and signed an overall deal with the streamer.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, milwaukeecourieronline.com, startribune.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *When They See Us* (2019), Fi1m 84, Consulting Producer, Teleplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Colin in Black and White* (2021), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *When They See Us* (2019), series, Teleplay, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md)
- *Legends of Chamberlain Heights* (2016), series, as Malik
- *The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete* (2013), Writer
- *Black Jack* (2011), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *The Come Up*, Screenplay

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