Mike Birbiglia Tickets

World renowned comedian, Mike Birbiglia is all set to perform a series of standup shows with the onset of the New Year. His shows are expected to be held all across Traverse City, East Lansing, Royal Oak, Louisville, Salt Lake City, Portland, Eugene, San Francisco, Boston, Fargo, Minneapolis, Westbury, Philadelphia and Mashantucket, amongst numerous other cities. The multi-talented artist, who has worked as an actor, a director and experimented with writing as well is most popular for his stand-up comedy acts. Birbiglia, who was always intrigued with comedy since he was in high school is initiating his “Thank God for Jokes” tour which is presenting shows all over America. His fans should consider buying Mike Birbiglia tickets for anyone of his shows.

The forthcoming series of shows that will present Mike Birbiglia will thoroughly entertain his fans. Born in 1978, Birbiglia is from Shewbury, Massachusetts. With Italian descent, the comedian attended the St. John’s High School in Shewbury after which he enrolled into St. Mark’s School. He chose Georgetown University which he attended till 2000. During this time, he took part in the university’s comedy clubs such as the Georgetown Players Improv Troupe. Soon after graduating Mike Birbiglia started performing standup shows throughout local bars and night clubs all across Massachusetts.

Throughout his career, the comedian has released eight comedy albums, three of which have been released by Comedy Central Records, namely “Two Drink Mike” released in 2006, “My Secret Public Journal Live” released in 2008 and his most recent release “Sleepwalk with Me Live” released in 2011. While “Sleepwalk with Me Live” was appreciated by the Onion AV Club as being the best comedic album in a decade, Billboard Magazine Comedy Charts ranked it number 1 on its annual charts.

Apart from releasing comedy albums, Mike Birbiglia presented a one-man show named “Sleepwalk with Me” in 2008. It debuted at the Bleecker Street Theatre and received positive critic reception as New York Times not only described it as being “simply perfect”, the Times of New York praised it by naming it “the Show of the Year” for 2009. With the success of this off-Broadway presentation, Birbiglia wrote his first book named “Sleepwalk with Me & Other Painful True Stories” which debuted at number 4 on Washington Post Political Bookworm Best Sellers list and number 29 on New York Times Bestseller List of nonfiction genre. The book was also included in the finalists for a Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2011.

With success in stand-up comedy and writing, Mike Birbiglia tried his hands at direction. Releasing his debut feature film in 2012 that was based on his one-man theatre show Birbiglia premiered the movie at the Sundance Film Festival. Winning the NEXT Audience Award at the film festival, “Sleepwalk with Me” was also chosen for the “Festival Favorites” award category in the South by Southwest Film Festival held in Austin, Texas. Apart from acting in his own feature film, Birbiglia has also acted in several box office hits such as Your Sister’s Sister, Cedar Rapids and Going the Distance. He has also acted in Girls, the HBO television series.

Pursuing his interest in direction, Mike Birbiglia came forth with his sophomore one-man show named “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend” that debuted in 2011. Running for almost four months on theatre, “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend” bagged the Lucille Lortel Award from the category of “Outstanding Solo Show” in the same year. Over the years, this show has been presented all across Canada, Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Performing the last of “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend” shows in June 2013 at the Carnegie Hall, Mike Birbiglia announced that he would be turning this one-man off Broadway show into a feature film as well. However, Birbiglia will be removing the autobiographical tinge in the movie that was present in the theatre show.

Apart from all these endeavors, Mike Birbiglia is also known to contribute to “the American Life”, a public international radio show. Birbiglia has performed on episodes 361 “The Fear of Sleep”, 370 “Ruining it for the Rest of Us”, 374 “Somewhere Out There” and 411 “First Contact”. Over the years, the talented artist has won several awards such as the ECNY Award for “Stand-up Comedy” in 2003. His film “Sleepwalk with Me” received nominations for Nightlife Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award and Drama Desk Award, all from the category of Outstanding Solo Show. He bagged the Nightlife Award for “Outstanding Comedian in a Major Engagement” from the list in 2009. To watch the multi-talented Birbiglia perform his best acts, all you need to do is get Mike Birbiglia tickets.