Furman University will host comedian Mike Birbiglia on campus Thursday, Sept. 7, at 7 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn Evening with Mike Birbiglia,\u201d is presented by Furman University Student Activities Board (FUSAB). His performance is open to the public. Tickets are $15 for the public and are available through Ticketmaster. Tickets are $5 for Furman students and faculty\/staff with a valid ID, and are available at the FUSAB office.<\/p>\n
Mike Birbiglia is a comedian, writer, actor and director known for his highly personal approach to comedy. Described as one of the busiest working comedians, he serves as creator, writer and star of the film Don\u2019t Think Twice<\/em> which was released in 2016.<\/p>\n He was recently seen in the fourth season of Netflix\u2019s Orange is the New Black<\/em> and Universal Pictures\u2019 Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping<\/em>. Birbiglia also recently completed a 100-city tour with his stand-up show, \u201cThank God for Jokes,\u201d which he later parlayed into an Off-Broadway run at The Lynn Redgrave Theater.<\/p>\n Birbiglia came onto the scene in 2012 with his Sundance award-winning directorial debut Sleepwalk With Me<\/em>. Birbiglia started as a stand-up comedian and has reached the height of his field\u2014an international touring solo theater act, which blends elements of theater, film, storytelling, and stand-up comedy.<\/p>\n In recent years, his work has appeared on National Public Radio\u2019s \u201cThis American Life,\u201d where he began a collaboration with host and producer Ira Glass. Birbiglia\u2019s first one-man show \u201cSleepwalk With Me\u201d was presented by Broadway legend Nathan Lane. His second one-man show \u201cMy Girlfriend\u2019s Boyfriend\u201d won the Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding solo show and toured concert halls around the world.<\/p>\n His literary debut Sleepwalk with Me & Other Painfully True Stories<\/em> was a New York Times<\/em> best-seller and was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.<\/p>\n As an actor, Birbiglia has appeared in Orange is the New Black<\/em> and HBO\u2019s Girls<\/em> as well as in films Trainwreck<\/em>, The Fault in Our Stars<\/em>, Digging For Fire<\/em>, Adult Beginners<\/em>, Cedar Rapids<\/em>, Going the Distance<\/em> and Your Sister\u2019s Sister<\/em>.<\/p>\n For more information, contact the Furman News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Furman University will host comedian Mike Birbiglia on campus Thursday, Sept. 7, at 7 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium. \u201cAn Evening with Mike Birbiglia,\u201d is presented by Furman University Student Activities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}