BIOGRAPHY
Mike Daisey
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 monologues, including 21 Dog Years, Great Men of Genius, The Ugly American, Monopoly!, Invincible Summer, I Miss the Cold War, Wasting Your Breath, and Stories From the Atlantic Night Cafe, which he’s performed Off-Broadway, across the country, and around the world. He’s been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, and his work has been heard on the BBC, NPR, the National Lampoon Radio Hour, and his groundbreaking series All Stories Are Fiction is available through Audible.com.
Currently he’s a commentator for National Public Radio’s Day To Day, a contributor to WIRED Magazine, Slate, Salon, and his writing appears in the anthology The Best Tech Writing 2006. 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 monologue about genius and megalomania in the lives of Bertolt Brecht, P. T. Barnum, Nikola Tesla, and L. Ron Hubbard. He lives with his director, collaborator, and co-conspirator, and wife, Jean-Michele Gregory, in Brooklyn.