Mike Donahue(XII)

Mike Donahue's award-winning Oscar qualifying debut short film, Troy, premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and has gone on to screen at another 66 festivals internationally, including the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. It has won over a dozen awards, including the Jury Award for Best Comedy at Aspen Shortfest 2023, the Audience Award for Best Narrative Short at Outfest 2022 and the Vimeo 'Unofficial Award' for Best US Narrative Short at Sundance. Troy is featured online in The New Yorker's Screening Room. Mike and writer Jen Silverman are working on their first feature, with Pacific Electric producing. For the past decade, Mike has worked as a theatre director. Select theatrical work: the LA premiere of Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance (Geffen Playhouse); the world premieres of Matthew Lopez's The Legend of Georgia McBride (Denver Center/MCC/Geffen) and Jen Silverman's Collective Rage (Woolly Mammoth/MCC); and Little Shop of Horrors with MJ Rodriguez, George Salazar, and Amber Riley (Pasadena Playhouse).