Michael Mitnick

Michael Mitnick (born September 7, 1983) is an American playwright and screenwriter.

Michael Mitnick
Mitnick in 2019
Born	(1983-09-07) September 7, 1983 (age 41) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (BA) Yale University (MFA)
Notable works	The Current War (2017) Fly By Night (2014) The Giver (2014)
Notable awards	Drama Desk Best Musical Nominee (2015)
Spouse	Jessica Brickman (m. 2019)

Early life

Mitnick grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended Fox Chapel Area High School, a public school in the Allegheny Valley. His father is a professor and the co-originator of The Theory of Agency.^[1] His mother is a public librarian.^[2] As a high school student, he worked in the graphic design department of WQED Pittsburgh and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.^[3] Mitnick attended Harvard University, where he wrote or co-wrote four musical comedies, including one Hasty Pudding Theatricals show. His musical Snapshots had two off-Broadway performances in New York. He was a member of the A capella group The Krokodiloes. After graduating in 2006, Mitnick worked at The Atlantic Monthly^[4] before earning his Master of Fine Arts degree in playwriting from The Yale School of Drama.^[5]

Career

Plays

Title	Venue	Year
Elijah	Yale School of Drama	2010 with Lupita Nyong'o[6]
Babs the Dodo	Washington Ensemble Theatre, Seattle	2011[7]
Sex Lives of our Parents	Second Stage, New York	2011[8]
Ed, Downloaded	Denver Center Theater Company	2013[9]
Spacebar a Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman	The Wild Project, New York	2014[10]
The Siegel	South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa	2017[11]
Mysterious Circumstance	The Geffen Playhouse, New York	2019[12]
Scotland, PA	Roundabout Theatre Company	2019[13][14]

Film

Title	Year
The Giver	2014[15]
The Current War	2017[16]
The Staggering Girl	2019
Muppet Man	TBA[17]
Light of Days	TBA

Television

Title	Year
Vinyl	2016[18]
Siegfried & Roy HBO limited series	TBA
Dial M for Murder	TBA

Music

Mitnick co-wrote the holiday song "Christmas You Go So Fast," which was featured on Vinyl, an HBO series executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger.^[19]

He also co-wrote, with Will Connolly and Kim Rosenstock, the musical, Fly By Night, which released a cast recording for its Off-Broadway run.^[20]

Honors

Variety magazine selected Mitnick as one of "10 Screenwriters to watch" in 2013.^[21] He received the 2012 Visionary Playwright Award from Theater Masters.^[22] He is a two-time winner of the Edgerton New American Foundation Award, for The Siegel (2017) and Fly By Night (2011), the latter of which was also nominated for four 2015 Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical.^[23]

Works in development

In May 2017, Deadline placed Mitnick's original screenplay Some Are Born Great on its 2017 Cannes Hotlist, and he was slated to direct the film.^[24]

Mitnick is reported to be writing the screenplay for a forthcoming Audrey Hepburn biopic.^[25] He is also currently working on a limited series about Siegfried & Roy, adapting the Judy Batalion novel Light of Days, and adapting the anthology series Dial M for Murder for MGM.^[26]