Colby
alum Mike Daisey is a monologuist who works in an extemporaneous fashion,
always without a script, composing entirely before live audiences, telling
and re-telling his stories night after night until the shows find their
shape. It was through this process that his hit show 21 Dog Years:
Doing Time at Amazon.com was forged. That monologue, about the years
he spent at the Internet giant Amazon.com, began at the Speakeasy Backroom
and went on to play for six months Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre
and to the regional stages of Seattle's Intiman Theatre, Berkeley Repertory
Theatre, and Portland Center Stage. His monologue How Theater Failed America ran Off-Broadway in 2008 and included a series of post-show roundtables featuring a significant number of notable personalities such as Robert Brustein (founder of Yale Repertory Theatre and American Repertory Theatre), Greg Kotis (playwright, Urinetown), James Bundy (dean, Yale School of Drama; Artistic Director, Yale Repertory Theatre), Paige Evans (director, Lincoln Center's new LCT3 program), and Rocco Landesman (Tony-award winning producer, Angels in America, The Producers), among others.
In 2004 Mr. Daisey launched the
new series All Stories Are Fiction, during which he created 13
new monologues in as many weeks at New York's Performance Space 122.
He has since created new episodes of All Stories Are Fiction for ACT Theatre and Portland Center Stage, and returned for a second
season of new monologues at P.S. 122, all of which can be heard at Audible.com.
Mr. Daisey's other monologues include The Ugly American, Monopoly!, I Miss the Cold War, and Wasting Your Breath. Mike's film Layover was shot in Copenhagen through the Danish
Film Institute and Zentropa, and The Ugly American was broadcast on the BBC in 2006. Daisey can be heard as a regular
commentator for National Public Radio.
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