The Trump Card performed by Mike Daisey at the Broad Stage on September 29th, 2016- Preview, Tickets
The Trump Card
Created and performed by Mike Daisey
Directed by Isaac Butler
One performance only!
Thursday, September 29 at 7:30p
Santa Monica, CA, August 22, 2016 – The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica presents the most
preeminent monologist in the American theater, Mike Daisey, who has been hailed as “the master
storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by The New York Times. Daisey will
bring his provocative style to The Trump Card at The Broad Stage on Thursday, September 29 at 7:30pm.
The show is created and performed by Daisey and directed by Isaac Butler.
In The Trump Card, Daisey takes on the reigning world heavyweight of self-mythologizing, the short-
fingered vulgarian who captured a nation’s heart through bullying, charm, one-syllable explosions, and
occasionally telling the brutal truth: Donald J. Trump. Daisey tells Trump’s story from his earliest days,
tracking him as he makes himself into a new American archetype—the very first rich man famous
exclusively for being rich. Instead of dismissing Trump as a simple con artist and huckster, Daisey breaks
down what makes Trump tick—and in doing so illuminates the state of our American Dream and how
we’ve sold it out.
The Trump Card previously played the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington D.C. and had a sold-out
run at The Public Theater in New York.
Tickets, starting at $32, are available online at www.thebroadstage.com and by calling 310-434- 3200.
Ticket prices are subject to change.
About Mike Daisey (Creator and Performer)
Mike Daisey has been compared to a modern-day Mark Twain and a latter-day Orson Welles for his provocative
monologues that combine the political and the personal, weaving together secret histories with hilarity and
heart. He’s known for art that reinvents the form, like his critically acclaimed 29-night live theatrical novel, All
the Faces of the Moon, a forty hour performance staged at the Public Theater in New York City.
He has toured across five continents, ranging from remote islands in the South Pacific to the Sydney Opera
House to abandoned theaters in post-Communist Tajikistan. He’s been a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, the
Late Show with David Letterman, a longtime host and storyteller with The Moth, as well as a commentator and
contributor to The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, Newsweek, WIRED, Vanity Fair,
Slate, Salon, NPR and the BBC. In a brief, meteoric career with This American Life, his appearances are among the most
listened to and downloaded episodes of that program’s history. He has been nominated for the Outer Critics
Circle Award, two Drama League Awards, and is the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, six Seattle
Times Footlight Awards, the Sloan Foundation’s Galileo Prize, and a MacDowell Fellowship.
As a playwright, his transcript of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was downloaded over 100,000 times in
the first week it was made available. Under a revolutionary open license it has seen more than 150 productions
around the world and been translated into six languages. Years later there are productions being staged all over
the world every night from in Germany to Sao Paolo to mainland China.
He is currently at work on his second book, Here at the End of Empire, which will be published by Simon and
Schuster, and a 25-night full-length theatrical monologue adaptation of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the
United States.
You can find him on the web at mikedaisey.com, and listen to his free podcast All Stories Are Fiction, where you
can hear many of his stories, on Soundcloud or at iTunes.
For Calendar Section
What: The Trump Card
Created and performed by Mike Daisey
Where: The Eli & Edythe Broad Stage
1310 11 th St. Santa Monica CA 90401. Parking is free
When: Thursday, September 29 at 7:30pm
Tickets: Prices start at $32. Prices subject to change.
Online: www.thebroadstage.com
Phone: Patron Services at 310.434.3200
In Person: Box office at 1310 11 th St. Santa Monica CA 90401
beginning three hours prior to performance.