Mike is currently the drummer for Randy Rainbow LIVE and a substitute drummer for CHICAGO The Musical on Broadway. He toured with CHICAGO The Musical for five years, and has performed across the US, Canada, Mexico, and in Tokyo, Osaka, Manilla, & Tel Aviv. He’s performed with Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, and was substitute drummer for 1776 on Brodway.

In addition to recording himself on drums and percussion, Mike produces and mixes music and podcasts. THE WORLD TO COME, a remotely produced epic musical theater odyssey featuring over 20 actors and 50 songs, was a 2021 Webby Award Honoree for Best Episode. For inspiring interviews about key moments of pivotal change, check out The 180 with Eric Lockley. Mike draws on his diverse interests and influences to create original works, including releases as Myc El and ToastMasc.

Mike has toured Sinaloa, Mexico, performing Traditional Irish Music with Into The Sun. He was Associate Director of the Junior Fellows Program and House Drummer/Percussionist at The O’Neill Center’s Cabaret Conference (MAC Board of Directors Award), also Music Coordinator, Conductor, and Drummer for THE ANTHEM Off-Broadway, and can be heard playing Traditional Irish Bodhrán for the FINDING NEVERLAND segment on the 68th Annual Tony Awards.

Active in cabaret, Mike is perhaps best known as the percussionist from Barb Jungr’s MAC Award Nominated HARD RAIN at 59E59, with Tracy Stark on Piano. He has also performed with Tori Scott, John McDaniel, Wells Hanley, Molly Pope, Marissa Mulder, Shawn Ryan, and Jesse Kissel at The O'Neill Center, Joe's Pub, 54 Below, The Duplex, Don't Tell Mama, Metropolitan Room, and Stage72.

Lunoe's Sunflowers (Helianthus gronus, Helianthus spilarum), a sound sculpture Mike made in collaboration with Paul Schuette and Mary Laube of The Warp Whistle Project, was shown at Philadelphia's University of the Arts in 2016.

Mike holds a Masters of Music in Classical Percussion from CCM, where he was a graduate teaching assistant. He completed a dual degree at The University of Hartford; Summa Cum Laude from The Hartt School with a B. Music in Classical Percussion, and Summa Cum Laude from the College of Engineering and Architecture with a B. Science in Acoustical Engineering & Music. His minor is in Mathematics.

Podcasts

Animal Fan Club

Co-Host, Producer, Editor, Original Music

We meet every week at our clubhouse we like to call the Dalmatian Station, to talk about our favorite animals. What we lack in expertise, we make up for in unbridled enthusiasm and childlike wonder. So saddle up that miniature horse & hold on tight for the furriest, fin-filled and feathered podcast in all of the Kingdom Animalia!

The World To Come

Audio Producer, Drums, Percussion, Bass

An epic Serial Musical Comedy set in a post-apocalyptic world with no internet or electricity. Five disparate factions vie for dominance in the city-state of Fiveboro. Each tribe worships at the altar of the bygone pop-culture references of an earlier time, and relishes the stories of film and television they've never actually seen.

The 180 with Eric Lockley

Audio Producer, Editor

Hey! This is a podcast where with fun games and good conversation we talk about a turning point in our guest's life. We've all had moments when a choice will either keep us right where we are or will take us to the next level. Let's laugh, heal and be inspired together as we discover how our guest made the 180.