SURFACING received the Mark Twain Distinguished Achievement Award from the National Playwriting Program. Thank you all for your support!

Thanks to everyone that came out to the “Blank Page to Script in 60 Min” workshop in Eugene, OR in February for this year’s Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

Mike’s seventh full length play, SURFACING, premiered in July 2018 in New York, and it was nominated for four Planet Connections Awards!

Outstanding Playwright: Mike Poblete
Outstanding Actress: Suzannah Herschkowitz
Outstanding Supporting Actress: Montana Lampert Hoover
Outstanding Director: Daniella Caggiano

Thank you all for coming out!

Gentrification. New York history. Peeing on a roof. It all came together on July 20th at Jimmy’s No. 43! Thanks to everyone that came!

NAKED made its North American debut in Village Playwrights’ Loud and Proud Festival on June 28th at 8pm. Click here for more info!

Mike was thrilled to have two monologues performed The Brick Theater‘s This Is Not Normal Festival on June 6th and 16th, a project that reminded all of us that life under the new administration is not normal. Click here for more information.

Primary Stages commissioned over 70 playwrights to craft a monologue from the perspective of an American on the morning of November 9th. The results were powerful, frightening, hilarious and cathartic, and Mike was humbled to be included with so many fantastic writers. Click here for more information.

Mike’s monologue THE OGRE’S SON, a Gothic tale of love, sacrifice and monsters, is now available on Amazon  as part of the Smith & Kraus anthology EVIL GENIUS: MONSTERS ON STAGE. Click here to order your copy.

Mike’s newest full length play, SURFACING, received a great staged reading at the Lucille Lortell Theater on August 15, produced by Primary Stages as part of Drills 2016. Click here to read the write-up on Playbill.com.

Mike’s sixth full length play, ONE DOWN, made its world premiere at San Antonio’s Overtime Theatre August 5th and ran the month of August, and according to MySanAntonio.com, it was “Definitely worth catching.” Click here to read the full review.