Michael Schaubach

Michael Schaubach (shaw - bahk) is an American comedy director, producer, editor and writer. He often works with Dropout (formerly CollegeHumor) as a director and producer.

On June 1, 2025 Schaubach directed Dimension 20: Battle at the Bowl at The Hollywood Bowl. In January of 2025 he was the Co-Executive Producer of Dimension 20: Gauntlet at the Garden at Madison Square Garden, which was the largest live Dungeons & Dragons show in history.

He is the director and co-executive producer of Dimension 20, Dropout's tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) show starring creator Brennan Lee Mulligan. On Dimension 20, Schaubach has also worked with Dungeon Masters Aabria Iyengar, Jasmine Bhullar and Matthew Mercer. Check him out on Off the Dome talking about all things directing, TTRPG and Dimension 20.

Career

Directing

Schaubach's other directorial works include DesiQuest created by Jasmine Bhullar, Downbeat created by Luke Kelly-Clyne and Graham Wallace, Gods of Food created by Rekha Shankar, Total Forgiveness created by Ally Beardsley and Grant O'Brien, Um, Actually created by Michael Trapp, The Rank Room created by Katie Marovitch and Breaking News. Aliens are real, the truth is out there.

In 2016, Schaubach began directing full-time at CollegeHumor. He has directed over 100 sketches including, How Tall is Grant?, Is Grant Keith From Buzzfeed?, Sweet Number Pi, The sCHining, CollegeHumor Heist, Wow, Everyone's Flirting With Me, The New Face of the NRA, CHome Alone among many other scripted and unscripted projects. One time it was Schaubach's turn to to collect the pot cookie order for the office and he was never more scared in his life.

In 2018, Schaubach was promoted to help develop and direct six shows for the newly-formed subscription service Dropout. The six shows were Dimension 20, Um, Actually, The Rank Room, Gods of Food, Total Forgiveness and Breaking News.

In 2024 Schaubach celebrated directing 200 episodes of Dimension 20. To date, he has directed over 20 seasons of the actual play show.

Schaubach is an all-around director who has scripted, unscripted, docu-series and large arena live shows in his repertoire. See below for contact information.