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| Mike Daisey in Invincible Summer. | Mike’s show created such a stir at the American Repertory Theatre that it was interrupted by school chaperones (or “anti-art terrorists,” as public radio’s Sound of Young America called them). |
This engagement of Mike Daisey is a DC Performing Arts Presenters Initiative project, which is made possible through funding by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program.
MIKE DAISEY has been called “the master storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by the New York Times for his many monologues, which include How Theater Failed America, Invincible Summer, Monopoly!, TRUTH, The Ugly American, I Miss the Cold War, Great Men of Genius, Wasting Your Breath and 21 Dog Years, and over the past decade he has performed his unique extemporaneous monologues at venues such as the Public Theater, American Repertory Theatre, the Spoleto Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Cherry Lane Theatre, Yale Repertory Theater, the Noorderzon Festival, Portland Center Stage, Intiman, Performance Space 122, and many more. He’s been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, his work has been heard on the BBC, NPR and the National Lampoon Radio Hour, and his groundbreaking series All Stories Are Fiction is available through Audible. Currently he’s a commentator for PRI’s Studio 360 and NPR’s Day To Day, a contributor to WIRED, Slate and Salon, a web contributor to Vanity Fair and Radar Magazine, and his writing appears in the anthology The Best Tech Writing 2006. His first film, Layover, is being distributed by Lars von Trier’s company Zentropa, and he stars in the Lawrence Krauser feature Horrible Child. His first book, 21 Dog Years: A Cubedweller’s Tale, was published by the Free Press and he is working on a second book, Great Men of Genius, adapted from his monologues about genius and megalomania in the lives of Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Nikola Tesla, and L. Ron Hubbard. He has been the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, two Seattle Times Footlight Awards, and a MacDowell Fellowship.
JEAN-MICHELE GREGORY works with solo performers and writers to create extemporaneous works based on autobiographical material. Over the last decade she has directed Mike Daisey’s monologues at venues across the nation, including the Public Theater (How Theater Failed America, Invincible Summer), American Repertory Theatre (Monopoly!, Invincible Summer), the Cherry Lane (21 Dog Years), PS 122 (All Stories Are Fiction), Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Great Men of Genius—winner of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award), Yale Repertory Theatre (Invincible Summer), ACT Theatre (The Ugly American), Portland Stage Company (Barring the Unforeseen), the Spoleto Festival, and many more. She recently directed Martin Dockery’s Wanderlust at the Barrow Group Theatre and Suzanne Morrison’s Yoga Bitch at London’s Theatre 503 and Oxford’s Burton Taylor. Fascinated by storytelling in all its shapes and forms, she is at work on a memoir about her family’s exodus from eastern Poland and what it means to forgive.
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Mike Daisey, photo by Ursa Waz
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