Mike Daisey Returns To Seattle With A PEOPLE'S HISTORY

Seattle Repertory Theatre is excited to present famed monologist Mike Daisey's newest work, A People's History. In this series of 18 stand-alone monologues, Daisey uses his razor-sharp wit to explore a history of the U.S. he was not taught in high school. From the first landing of Columbus to the election of Donald Trump, Daisey will contrast his high school history book with Howard Zinn's electrifying A People's History Of The United States. Each night of the production will feature a fresh chapter from the history book - chapter content to be performed night to night will not be disclosed in advance of the performance as part of the experience. A People's History will run October 17 - November 25, 2018 (opening night isOctober 24) on the Leo K. stage - single tickets are on sale now (starting at $17) and are available through the Seattle Rep Box Office at 206.443.2222 or online at SeattleRep.org.

"What distinguishes him from most solo performers is how elegantly he blends personal stories, historical digressions and philosophical ruminations. He has the curiosity of a highly literate dilettante and a preoccupation with alternative histories, secrets large and small, and the fuzzy line where truth and fiction blur. Mr. Daisey's greatest subject is himself," The New York Timesdescribes. "Mike Daisey is a brilliant storyteller working on an epic scale," Seattle Rep Artistic Director Braden Abraham comments. "We're thrilled to welcome him back to Seattle to present this provocative, relevant, and engaging new work with our Pacific Northwest audiences - this is one to come back for again and again."

Daisey garnered mass attention for his work The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, which played Seattle Rep in 2010. It was this particular theatrical work that catapulted him into the headlines for the gut-wrenching and riveting delivery that Academy Award-winning film maker Michael Moore described as being "responsible for bringing Goliath to its knees." Since this time, Daisey has become more prolific, creating and performing a slew of new works including the groundbreaking If You See Something Say Something, a 40-hour performance of All The Faces Of The Moon staged at The Public Theater in New York City, a 24-hour-straight monologue experience in Portland, OR titled All The Hours In The Day, and more. His latest work, A People's Historydebuted at The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis early this year to great acclaim in the Guthrie's Dowling Studio. Seattle Rep marks the show's second production.

For more information and tickets to A People's History, please visit SeattleRep.org.

ABOUT Mike Daisey (Creator and Performer)

Mike Daisey is the preeminent monologist in American theatre today. He has been compared to a modern-day Mark Twain and a latter-day Orson Welles for his provocative monologues that combine the political and the personal, weaving together secret histories with hilarity and heart. He's known for art that reinvents the form, like his critically acclaimed 29-night live theatrical novel, All the Faces of the Moon, a 40-hour performance staged at The Public Theater in New York City. He is currently at work on his second book, Here at the End of Empire, which will be published by Simon and Schuster. He has toured across five continents, ranging from remote islands in the South Pacific to the Sydney Opera House to abandoned theatres in post-Communist Tajikistan. He's been a guest on "Real Time with Bill Maher," the "Late Show with David Letterman," a longtime host and storyteller with "The Moth," as well as a commentator and contributor to The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, Newsweek, WIRED, Vanity Fair, Slate, Salon, NPR, and the BBC. In a brief, meteoric stint with This American Life, his appearances are among the most listened to and downloaded episodes of that program's history. He has been nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, two Drama League Awards, and is the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, six Seattle Times Footlight Awards, the Sloan Foundation's Galileo Prize, and a MacDowell Fellowship. As a playwright, his transcript of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was downloaded over 100,000 times in the first week it was made available. Under a revolutionary open license, it has been translated into six languages and produced more than 150 times around the world. Years later, there are productions being staged all over the world.

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