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DocuSign Envelope ID:06711178-0E3F-4541-A834-A91 FC422F4D1 <br /> Mike Wiley Productions: <br /> Artist Bio/Mike Wiley <br /> goingbarefoot•inc. <br /> a presenter's point of view... an artist's standard of performance <br /> www.goi ngbarefoot.corn <br /> Stephen Barefoot 919.489.1541 stephen @goingbarefoot.com <br /> Mike Wiley Productions, Ltd. www.mikewileyproductions.com <br /> "A marvel to watch..." Robert McDowell, Triangle Theatre Reviews <br /> "More than mere versatility... It's virtuosity." American Theatre Magazine <br /> Mike Wiley is the NC-based playwright and actor whose distinctive original works in <br /> documentary theatre, film, educational residencies and performances for student <br /> audiences has been acclaimed across America and abroad. <br /> His dramas relay the stories of fugitive staves, civil rights game-changers, sports heroes <br /> and freedom fighters. Dynamic multi-character portrayals offer penetrating views into <br /> parallel lives whose roles within African American history have shaped a richer total <br /> American experience. Wiley's remarkable one-man "cast" sometimes introduces dozens of <br /> characters during the course of a single play. Morphing from young to old, man to woman, <br /> African American to white, his gripping stories enlighten and inspire audiences of every age <br /> to apply history's lessons to events and situations of the present. <br /> An MFA Graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, Wiley's original theatrical repertoire includes <br /> DownRange: Stories from the Homefront, drawn from experiences of military spouses <br /> and families left at home when their family member is deployed, commissioned by Cape <br /> Fear Regional Theatre in Fayetteville. The Parchman Hour, Songs and Stories of the <br /> 1961 Freedom Riders, was premiered by Playmakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill in <br /> 2011 and subsequently produced by other US regional theatres. One Noble Journey:A <br /> Box Marked Freedom relays the true story of Henry "Box" Brown, a slave who crated and <br /> mailed himself to freedom. Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till chronicles the murder, trial <br /> and confession of the men accused of the Chicago youth's lynching in Mississippi in 1955. <br /> Blood Done Sign My Name is Wiley's riveting dramatization of Tim Tyson's best-selling <br /> memoir of race and religion. Additional plays include Jackie Robinson:A Game Apart, <br /> about African American athletes who pushed the color barrier to its breaking point; Tired <br /> Souls: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, documenting men and women who stood up to Jim <br /> Crow segregation; Life Is So Good, about the amazing life of George Dawson who learned <br /> to read at the age of 98, and Brown v. Board of Education: Over Sixty Years Later on <br /> the high-impact ruling that desegregated schools. During the 2016 touring season, Wiley <br /> adds yet two additional compelling productions to his impressive repertoire. Breach of <br /> Peace shares the story of some of the brave visionaries involved in the Freedom Rides of <br /> the early 1960s, and playwright Howard Craft's adaptation of The Fire of Freedom allows <br /> Wiley to recount the remarkable life of Abraham Galloway, the slave who rose out of <br /> bondage to become one of the most significant and stirring black leaders in the South <br /> during the Civil War. <br />