Michael Mitnick

Michael Mitnick

Michael Mitnick is a playwright.

His works include Scotland, PA (NYT Critics’ Pick, The Roundabout Theatre Company), Fly By Night (Drama Desk-nominated Best Musical, Playwrights Horizons), Mysterious Circumstances (The Geffen Playhouse), Sex Lives of Our Parents (Second Stage), The Siegel (South Coast Repertory), Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman (The Wild Project), as well as The...
Michael Mitnick is a playwright.

His works include Scotland, PA (NYT Critics’ Pick, The Roundabout Theatre Company), Fly By Night (Drama Desk-nominated Best Musical, Playwrights Horizons), Mysterious Circumstances (The Geffen Playhouse), Sex Lives of Our Parents (Second Stage), The Siegel (South Coast Repertory), Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman (The Wild Project), as well as The Happiness Trilogy: Elijah (LOCAL), Ed, Downloaded (The Denver Center), and Babs the Dodo (Washington Ensemble Theatre).

His songs have been sung on Broadway, at Lincoln Center, The Guggenheim, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, and on HBO.

Film work includes The Current War (dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon), The Giver (dir. Phillip Noyce), and The Staggering Girl (dir. Luca Guadagnino).

He has an MFA in Playwriting from The Yale School of Drama.

Michael was born and raised in Pittsburgh.

Plays

  • Spacebar: A Broadway Play By Kyle Sugarman
    In Michael Mitnick's play Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman, Kyle Sugarman, a 16-year-old from Fort Collins, CO, writes a 456-page play that he's sure will be the biggest hit in the history of Broadway. Rejected by his father, the girl he loves, and Broadway itself, Kyle takes matters into his own hands – embarking on an adventure as funny, touching, and surprising as the play he’s written.
  • The Siegel
    Ethan Siegel is in love. Tonight he’s going to ask Alice’s parents for permission to marry her. There’s just one hitch. Ethan and Alice broke up two years ago—and she’s in a serious relationship with someone else. But Ethan is undaunted. An irresistible comedy about modern love and the need to go back in order to move forward.
  • Mysterious Circumstances
    The play centers around the true story of the mysterious death of Richard Lancelyn Green, the world’s foremost scholar on Sherlock Holmes. After spending two decades searching for the missing papers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Green came close to unlocking the secrets behind Holmes’ creator when he tracked down an elusive box which was said to be cursed.

    What is fact and what is fiction? With...
    The play centers around the true story of the mysterious death of Richard Lancelyn Green, the world’s foremost scholar on Sherlock Holmes. After spending two decades searching for the missing papers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Green came close to unlocking the secrets behind Holmes’ creator when he tracked down an elusive box which was said to be cursed.

    What is fact and what is fiction? With multiple suspects and competing motives, Green’s death raises questions that may be answered only by Holmes himself. Mysterious Circumstances uses breathtaking theatricality and magic to uncover the mystery behind this true crime.
  • Sex Lives of our Parents
    Virginia is getting married. As her wedding day approaches, unwanted ghosts of her mother’s past visit Virginia, unearthing a past she never knew – nor wanted to. Sex Lives of Our Parents is a comic nightmare about the mysterious hollows between parents and children and all the things that may be better left unsaid.
  • elijah
    1922: Elijah, a broke student from Brooklyn, arrives in Interwar Paris and becomes an accidental Don Juan overnight. While hunting his idol, a reclusive composer of ballets, Elijah is swept into a life-changing summer of sex, opium, and blackmail.
  • Babs the Dodo
    In this unsettling dark comedy about American materialism and loneliness, we meet BABS GILLESPIE, a Home Shopping host on the verge of a major birthday milestone that suddenly jolts her wide-awake to her solitary and empty existence. Long-divorced, BABS makes quite a living selling the trinkets that fill the holes in our own lives. Yet, this master saleswoman and a role model to millions of Americans is now on...
    In this unsettling dark comedy about American materialism and loneliness, we meet BABS GILLESPIE, a Home Shopping host on the verge of a major birthday milestone that suddenly jolts her wide-awake to her solitary and empty existence. Long-divorced, BABS makes quite a living selling the trinkets that fill the holes in our own lives. Yet, this master saleswoman and a role model to millions of Americans is now on quest to fill her life with everything money can’t buy before it’s too late.