A playwright, teacher and freelance journalist, Mike has written more than twenty plays, including Dancers, which won the American College Theatre Festival’s National Student Playwriting Award; and The Harmony Codes, which was staged at the Sundance Playwright’s Lab and premiered at Michigan’s Purple Rose Theatre. He and Linda DeArmond co-authored the book for A Beautiful Place, a musical based on the life of Holocaust era painter Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. Mike has won Arizona Newspaper Association and Arizona Press Club awards for his humor and features writing at the East Valley Tribune. His stories have appeared in Phoenix Magazine, The Tucson Weekly and The Phoenix New Times. His first novel, Breaking Ball, came out in 2021.
A playwright, teacher and freelance journalist, Mike has written more than twenty plays, including Dancers, which won the American College Theatre Festival’s National Student Playwriting Award; and The Harmony Codes, which was staged at the Sundance Playwright’s Lab and premiered at Michigan’s Purple Rose Theatre. He and Linda DeArmond co-authored the book for A Beautiful Place, a musical based on the life of Holocaust era painter Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. Mike has won Arizona Newspaper Association and Arizona Press Club awards for his humor and features writing at the East Valley Tribune. His stories have appeared in Phoenix Magazine, The Tucson Weekly and The Phoenix New Times. His first novel, Breaking Ball, came out in 2021.