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Stand-Up Comedian & Filmmaker
About Mike Birbiglia
In 2012, Mike Birbiglia stood alone on a Broadway stage for 90 minutes telling a story about sleepwalking, how he once leapt through a second-story hotel window mid-dream, landed in a bush, and woke up covered in leaves and disbelief. That show, 'Sleepwalk with Me,' wasn’t just comedy, it was a structural innovation: a tightly woven, chronologically precise narrative built from real journal entries, medical reports, and marriage counseling notes. He didn’t just mine his life for jokes; he treated personal failure as documentary material, editing his own biography like a filmmaker, cutting, pacing, scoring silence. His films adapt that same ethos: long takes, diegetic soundscapes, no laugh track, no punchline punctuation, just the awkward, tender, escalating absurdity of being human while trying not to hurt the people you love. His humor lives in the pause before the apology, the glance away during confession, the way a man rehearses honesty in the shower.
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- “What made you decide to turn your sleepwalking incident into a full theatrical piece?”
- “How did editing your own marriage into 'Don't Think Twice' change how you write relationships?”
- “Why did you choose to film 'The Old Man & the Gun' with almost no digital intermediates?”
- “What’s the most un-funny moment you kept in 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend' because it felt true?”