Screenwriter and film and television director Michael Rymer entered the University of Southern California in 1981 to study film. He enrolled in two-year training program for actors in 1986, and during his study wrote and directed two plays, 'Darkness at Noon' and 'Ensenada', both staged at the Los Angeles Art Theatre.
In 1989 Rymer wrote Dead Sleep, a psychological thriller which was made into a film by Village Roadshow in Queensland in 1990. Several other films set in Australia followed, including Electric Dreaming which was staged in the outback.
Rymer has also directed several films and television programs in America. In 2011, he was nominated for an IF Award in the Best Direction category for his direction of Face to Face.