Chicken: The Playwright

MIke Batistick
Mike Batistick was a two-year Juilliard Playwriting Fellow from 2003-05, a Fulbright Fellow to Taiwan, and a graduate of Fordham University in the Bronx. Member: MCC Playwrights' Coalition, Partial Comfort Productions, and Arts Nova Play Group. He has been commissioned to write original works for the Atlantic Theater Company. Chicken, Ponies, and Port Authority Throw Down are available through Dramatists Play Service. Chicken was produced Off-Broadway by Studio Dante in the spring of 2007, and premiered in the UK at London's Theatro Technis in April 2008. In February 2009, the play moved Off-West End to London's Hackney Empire. Bodega Lung Fat, originally a part of the Public Theater's New York Now! Series, was produced on London's Off-West End in Spring 2009. Urban Legend, a short play, was a part of the 2008 Source Theater Festival in Washington, D.C. Port Authority Throw Down was produced Off-Broadway by the Culture Project in Winter 2006. Ponies, which premiered Off-Broadway at Studio Dante in 2004, was produced at Gloucester Stage in Massachusetts in the summer of 2007. Flag was produced at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY in 2006. Mr. Batistick grew up in New Jersey and currently resides in Brooklyn.