Mike Daisey

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mike Daisey
Occupation	Monologist
Date Of Birth	Jan 21, 1976(1976-01-21)
Age	48
Birthplace	Fort Kent
Country	United States
Birth City	Maine
Horoscope	Capricorn

Mike Daisey Biography

Mike Daisey is one of the most popular and richest Monologist who was born on January 21, 1976 in Fort Kent, Maine, United States. Mike Daisey, born January 21, 1976, is an American monologist and author. He also plays the role of actor. His monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs, which focuses on the labor conditions in which Apple devices are manufactured, was the basis of a popular episode of This American Life. However, the episode was later retracted due to its inaccurate facts. It was discovered that Daisey had lied about his experiences.

Theater is featured in Daisey’s work in The Ugly American (2003, about Daisey’s life as a 19 year old drama student in London) and How Theater Failed America (2008). This monologue examines how theater has lost sight its original purpose.

The April 19, 2007 performance of Invincible Summer at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was disrupted when over 80 audience members from a high school in Norco, California left the production mid- performance, after teachers and chaperones decided that they had heard too many obscenities. One parent approached the stage and poured water over Daisey’s outline notes; Daisey said that the destroyed papers were the original copy of the show’s outline. He described the effect of the walk-out as “shocking”. Daisey later sought out and spoke with representatives of the group, including the member who destroyed his notes.

Invincible Summer (2007) is about the history of the New York City transit system, loss, and democracy in modern-day America.

Daisey broke with his 2001 monologue 21 Dog Years. Daisey published the story in a book under the same title in 2002. In 2004, the BBC broadcast his radio adaptation.

Mike Daisey Net Worth

Mike Daisey is one of the richest Monologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mike Daisey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Daisey’s first work includes Wasting Your Breath (1997) a monologue from the Great American Roadtrip and I Miss the Cold War (191998) about Daisey’s visit to postcomunist Warsaw.

Daisey performed a variety of non-traditional monologues in the 2000s. Daisey created an impromptu show onstage for All Stories Are Fiction (2004) by not taking any notes until the performance. In Mysteries of The Unexplained (2009), Daisey performed a series op-eds about Facebook, bacon and the Boardwalk. Daisey’s 24-hour monologue All the Hours in the Day (2011) was presented at Portland’s TBA Festival in September 2011. It focused on themes of loss and transformation as well as the desire to be authentic.

Critical analysis of powerful men and institutions often feature in his work. Monopoly! (2005) is critical of capitalism and details the rivalry between Edison and Tesla, while Great Men of Genius (2006) profiled Bertolt Brecht, showman P.T. Barnum, scientist Nikola Tesla and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. If You See Something Say Something (2008), critical of the Department of Homeland Security, compares it to the days of tense alert during the Cold War.

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Performed at the Spoleto Festival, ArtsEmerson, the Cape Cod Theatre Project, and Woolly Mammoth Theater, The Orient Express (Or, the Value of Failure) (2012) is Daisey’s story of the aftermath of his media scandal, and a trip he took to recreate the Orient Express, traveling from Paris to Istanbul.

Facts & Trivia

Mike Ranked on the list of most popular Monologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mike Daisey celebrates birthday on January 21 of every year.

In January 2012, portions of the theatrical monologue were aired on the radio program This American Life. The episode, titled “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory” quickly became the most downloaded episode in the show’s history, with 888,000 downloads after two months. Two months later, This American Life officially retracted the episode, having discovered that some of the personal experiences described by Daisey in his monologue had been exaggerated or fabricated. A follow-up episode, entitled “Retraction”, stood by the veracity of the claims Daisey had made about working conditions at Foxconn, but claimed Daisey had dramatized many of the personal details of his own experiences visiting China in his monologue. Daisey was accused of exaggerating the number of plants, people, and underaged workers he talked to, of claiming that the plant guards had guns, and of describing a worker with a crippled hand using an iPad for the first time as a Foxconn employee. This American Life also accused Daisey of purposely misleading them by trying to prevent them from contacting the translator he used in order to fact check his story. In an interview with host Ira Glass, Daisey admitted to giving the producers of This American Life a false name for the translator and also admitted that he lied about her contact information being changed. Daisey apologized to This American Life for allowing them to use his theatrical monologue in the “Retraction” program, and made a full apology in a statement on his website.