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Mike Daisey

MIKE DAISEY

  (1976 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Mike Daisey's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Mike Daisey's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazoncom         Agony And the Ecastacy Of Steve Jobs, The         Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs Revisited, The         All Stories Are Fiction         American Utopias         Barring the Unforeseen         Great Men Of Genius         How theater Failed America         If You See Something, Say Something         Last Cargo Cult, The         Our Man In Havana         Truth         Yes This Man

21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazoncom

21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazoncom
Mike spent three years working at amazon rising from temp to marketing executive. He freaked out and started sending free books to Norwegians

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1st Produced:
Cherry Lane Theatre, Off Broadway, NY     2002

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Fourth estate (2002)   978-1841157658

Music:
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Agony And the Ecastacy Of Steve Jobs, The

Synopsis:
Mike Daisey pulls back the curtain veiling America's most mysterious technology icon. With a wickedly funny tale of pride, beauty, lust, and industrial design, Daisey illuminates the war - from China to Silicon Valley - over how we see our world, and the human price we pay for our high-tech toys.

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1st Produced:
Bagley Wright Theatre, Seattle     22 Apr 2011

Organisations:
Seattle Repertory Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy Drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs Revisited, The

Synopsis:
Daisey's play about America's mysterious technology icon is revisited for 2013. This is a hilarious and sometimes harrowing tale of Steve Jobs and the Chinese workers toiling to make your beloved iPhones. Explore the legality and morality of electronic sweatshops in China, complete with armed guards, underage workers and disturbing tales of toxic factories. Agony shows how one man's story might not be able to topple an empire, but it can certainly give it a righteous shove. 'O'Rourke's performance is never less than perfectly pitched.' **** (Fest).

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1st Produced:
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     01 Aug 2013

Organisations:
Gilded Balloon

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Gilded Balloon 1 hour

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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All Stories Are Fiction

Synopsis:
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Organisations:
Mike Daisey

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Music:
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American Utopias

Synopsis:
Mike Daisey shows us a distinctly American vision of utopia-how we create civic spaces for ourselves in which we act out our dreams of a better world. Daisey takes us everywhere to pursue the story: from Disney World and its theme park perfection, to the drug-fueled anarchic excesses of Burning Man, from the Masonic underpinnings of our nation's capitol, to Zuccotti Park, where in the unlikeliest place a new movement gets born. Gunplay, giant glittery dildos, police actions, and secret Freemason underwear come together to tell the history of our American dream.
- http://www.theatreindc.com

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Genre:
150 min one act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Barring the Unforeseen

Synopsis:
Mike Daisey returns to his roots in a monologue told from a vast and unknowable northern province called childhood. Woven together from Maine ghost stories, the history of spiritualism, H.P. Lovecraft's tortured life, and the unspeakable dread lurking under your bed, Daisey creates a monologue about why we tell ghost stories, and the precious, terrifying gifts they bring us. Unsettling and inquisitive, he embarks on a journey with a daring audience to come back with answers.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Irt, 154 Christopher Street 3B, NY     26 Oct 2010

Organisations:
Inteborough Repertory Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Great Men Of Genius

Synopsis:
Monologues about Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Nikola Tesla, and L. Ron Hubbard

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1st Produced:
Galapagos     2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Monologues

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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How theater Failed America

Synopsis:
Master storyteller Mike Daisey sinks his razor-sharp wit into a subject he knows well: the American theater, from the sublimely crass to the genuinely ugly. From gorgeous new theaters standing empty as cathedrals, to 'successful' working actors traveling like migrant farmhands, to an Arts culture unwilling to speak or listen to its own nation, Daisey takes stock of the dystopian state of theater in America: a shrinking world with smaller audiences every year. Fearlessly implicating himself and the system he works within, Daisey seeks answers to essential and dangerous questions about the art we're making, the legacy we leave the future, and who it is we believe we're speaking to
- press release

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1st Produced:
Public Theatre, NY     2008

Organisations:
Joe's Pub

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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If You See Something, Say Something

Synopsis:
investigates the secret history of the Department of Homeland Security through the untold story of the Father of the neutron bomb and a personal pilgrimage to the Trinity blast site.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Public Theatre, NY     2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Last Cargo Cult, The

Synopsis:
In the Last Cargo Cult, monologist Mike Daisey returns to the Public with the story of his journey to a remote South Pacific island whose people worship America and its cargo. This narrative is woven against a searing examination of the international financial crisis that gripped the globe at the same moment. Confronting the financial system that dominates our world, Daisey wrestles with the largest questions of what the collapse means, and what it can tell us about our deepest values. Part adventure story and part memoir, he explores each culture to unearth a human truth between the seemingly primitive and achingly modern.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Public Theatre, NY     07 Dec 2009

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Our Man In Havana

Synopsis:
The U.S,/ Cuba relationship, a special seder and a drive through mojito bar

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1st Produced:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Truth

Synopsis:
Truth follows the fictional and non-fictional self-destruction of a Million Little Pieces author James Frey, the sordid and shocking tale of non-existent, world famous transsexual author J.T. LeRoy, and the mystery of the wildly prolific multiple personalities of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Mike Daisey investigates the bizarre stories of these literary sensations and by reflecting his findings against his own history of lying and telling the truth this master storyteller illuminates the uncertain landscape of the emotionally true, the literally true, and the constant struggle to speak the truth.
- Production Notes

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1st Produced:
Ars Nova, NY     2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Monologues

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Yes This Man

Synopsis:
Men, women and power

Notes:
Originally entitled "Yes All Women"

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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