Michael Bihovsky

01/02/2026

This Is the title duet from my new musical “Through a Screen,” featuring Anna Faye Lieberman as Eden, and me as Jacob.

THE STORY:
Eden and Jacob have become each other's closest - and completely virtual - companions. Although Jacob is new to social distancing due the pandemic, Eden has been living a virtual life for quite some time, due to the cruel and dismissive attitudes that the "real world" had in store for her when she lost her ability to walk due to multiple sclerosis. Meanwhile, Eden is a welcome distraction from Jacob’s clinical depression, anxiety, and COVID-induced isolation.

And so begins a love story in a world where nearly everyone has to live the limited, fear-driven, and fragile life that is all too familiar to so many people who live with chronic illnesses and disabilities. But when “the new normal” arrives: who will have the choice to leave that virtual world behind?

Stay tuned for more from "Through a Screen"!

12/29/2025

Something special coming soon... 😉 Stay tuned!

10/31/2025

An impromptu duet cover of Phoebe Bridgers beautiful ballad "Halloween," with Didi Fever on guitar and melody. Happy Halloween!

10/14/2025

Thanks to the Dysautonomia Support Network for putting together this short video of something I wrote several years back.

Living with chronic illness - and frankly, even much of life outside of illness, especially when it gets difficult - is about accepting and embracing duality. This is one of the many places where that shows up, and I’m really honored that DSN thought this quote was worth sharing.

05/31/2025

Photo from tonight’s battle: Chemistry vs. Physics with . Spoiler alert: physics (AKA I) won 😁

05/28/2025

May is ! This is a video of me performing my original song "Enough Words" (based on a Rumi poem of the same title) last summer at The Ehlers-Danlos Society's annual gala.

If you want to help me and the millions like me who desperately need more research into this condition, please consider making a donation to The Ehlers-Danlos Society. It is an incredible organization that funds absolutely vital research and advocacy, and every dollar can make a real difference in the lives of so many.

05/27/2025

Important updates about my broken hand and finger! Watch this short (for me) video to find out the results of my multiple surgeries, how I'm currently doing, and what comes next.

01/01/2025

My annual New Year's mailing is ready for launch, and full of a lot of cool things! If you're not already signed up for my mailing list, just head over to https://www.michaelbihovsky.com and enter your name and email in the "Mailing List Signup" form in the sidebar. I only send out 2-3 emails per year, and I promise not to annoy you (or at least, not to annoy you with too many mailings).

Happy new year!!!

**Featured Items** A story of love and disability in the age of COVID-19by Michael Bihovsky Stream “Paperweight” on Spotify and all your other favorite music platforms, and be sure to read Broadway World’s feature for the story behind the music video and song! Keep your sense of humor healthy ...

12/30/2024

I had such a lovely time with Matthew Dorsch last night at a Chanukah party hosted by Governor Josh Shapiro at the Governor’s Mansion in Harrisburg, PA.

And behold: my thoroughly undeserved sense of self-importance has lasted not only for one night, but is on track to last for eight. It’s a Chanukah miracle!!

12/03/2024

I do not direct this quote toward any person or group in particular, but rather toward all people (including myself) as something to keep in mind about human nature when it comes to our own advocacy and activism. The things we say – but just as importantly, the things we don’t say. Either because we don’t think they need saying, but more often, because it muddies or even contradicts the moral purity and righteousness with which it is far more comfortable to drape ourselves.

We do this even when we know better. We do this when we speak differently in public than we do in private, generally with a lot less balance and nuance. We do this when we rob the “other“ of their value and humanity, because it is far simpler and less painful to label all of them as the enemy (the hypocrisy being that this very tendency is often what we are speaking out against in the first place). And we do this when we do not hold our own chosen “side“ accountable for their own atrocities, which we justify by saying that there are plenty of other people making that argument already, so there’s no need to do so ourselves.

But it doesn’t work. All it does is pollute the integrity of our arguments, and worse yet, turn friends and even potential allies into enemies as well. And it hinders the solving of actual problems, because it radicalizes those who hear the things we say but who are ignorant of the context into believing that compromise itself and the noble goal of peaceful coexistence is in fact a cowardly act of surrender.

I hope with all my heart that we may all strive to speak complete truths, instead of merely countering the narratives that upset us. Especially when we know that those narratives contain at least some degree of merit and truth.