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Mike has appeared as a speaker and guest at countless events, including The James River Writers Conference, as the keynote speaker at Poetry Day at Adelphi University, and at several high schools and universities. He is thrilled to speak or visit with groups large or small. No offer is turned down based on lack of funding.
As a guest teacher, Mike has led classes in performance, writing, and studio-style sessions at many universities and schools including Montclair University, Colorado College, Middlebury, and Barnard.
Working on a vast array of assignments from scriptwriting to branding, case studies to websites, Mike’s clients include PricewaterhouseCoopers, Conde Nast, Benjamin Moore, Bravo, DishTV, Logo, and many others. (See list below.)
Mike has conducted live interviews and panels for The Hamptons Film Festival, Symphony Space, PEN and countless others. His live interviews include artists and writers like Stevie Nicks, Rufus Wainwright, Masha Gessen and Jennifer Finney Boylan as well as on topics ranging from CBD to neuroscience and meditation.
A seasoned performer, comedian and host, Mike has emceed several gala events and fundraisers including Yaddo, La Mama, Performance Space New York, Visual AIDS and many more. As a theater maker, he's collaborated on several live shows including Opium in Las Vegas and co-writing the infamous faux playbill for the Broadway and touring productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
The legendary professional services firm, the second largest in the world, needed a writer to create bright, absorbing stories to express their exciting new initiative.
This successful Las Vegas-based production company (Absinthe) wanted to create a new production: Opium. I was the head writer.
The respected real estate developer wanted to create marketing and website copy to explain its offerings as a tenant and landlord rep as well as in commercial development.
This new beautiful lodge in Green Mountain Falls Colorado wanted a guidebook for its guests. I wrote it. Over 80 pages long, it included the town history, recipes, trail maps, a field guide, even where to find the markers for Bigfoot sitings.
The media giant's advertising division wanted to create a Super Bowl commercial proposal for Rocket Mortgage. I wrote it.
The Peabody Awards needed dozens of introductions to its nominees, hosted by Keegan-Michael Key. I co-wrote his banter and intros.
This well respected casting firm (Todd Haynes, HBO) wanted to offer auditioning classes. I wrote the descriptions and their overarching mission.
AARP needed tons of content for its "Disrupt Aging" initiative. I gave them more listicles and articles in two years than anyone else.
The high-end paint brand wanted to reframe how we think about paint. Scientific innovations allowed for both gloss and matte paints to be wiped clean. It was a paradigm shift in thinking for the customer. I researched and wrote their one-sheet for pitches to media.
For W Magazine, I teamed with filmmaker Aaron Chistian to create two Attenborough-style mocumentaries exploring the behaviors of the Paris Fashion Week and New York's Frieze Art Fair.
I co-wrote the faux playbill for the Broadway and touring production of the this groundbreaking musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. The premise: Hedwig was on Broadway because a show premiered and failed the night before and there was an opening. The show: "Hurt Locker: the Musical". With frequent collaborator Amanda Duarte, we were tasked to create a parody of a Broadway playbill. The knives came out. It's now a collector's item.
An intimate live interview with Stevie Nicks upon the release of her documentary and new album for the Hamptons Film Festival. I had the honor of chatting with one of rock's enduring legends and pioneers. Backstage, she was funny, nerdy, talkative and completely lovely. Also backstage: Dave Stewart.
I hosted a series of events for the PEN Literary organization's annual festival where writers talk about their odd, sometimes incongruous but always revealing obsessions. Here, I speak with the prominent writer and editor Dan Savage and his obsession with plaques and trophies.