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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

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 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. 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
Monopoly!, I Miss the Cold War, and Wasting Your Breath. His film Layover
will
be shot this summer in Copenhagen through the Danish Film Institute and
Zentropa, and he'll be recording The Ugly American for broadcast on the BBC
this fall. He can be heard as a regular commentator for National Public Radio
and is currently at work on a second book, Happiness Is Overrated, a
collection
of essays dedicated to the proposition its title asserts.