Michael Baroni

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Mike Baroni is an aspiring novelist, somewhat unsuccessful essayist, raconteur, and unpublished poet whose simple comedic tomes are often concerned with the search for identity and personal meaning. Baroni earned his B.S. in Film at Boston University, where he discovered the works of great American directors like Robert Altman and Sidney Lumet. There, he started his writing career as an essayist and journalist for the student-run newspaper The Daily Free Press.

After graduating from Boston University (B.S., 1997), Baroni moved to Chicago, where he began improvisational acting classes at the legendary Second City Theater, studying the works of his childhood heroes Bill Murray, John Belushi and Chris Farley. For years he labored in relative obscurity until the late-1990s when he began to attract attention with his somber, haunting and hilarious portrayal of a mad priest known as Father Fred. These performances marked him as a talent to watch.

Although the influence of American writers like Paul Auster, John Steinbeck, Philip Roth and Hemingway is evident in his fiction, other influences range from Pinter, and Mamet to Albee and the great Irish author and poet, Brendan Behan.

One of his most recent works is I Don’t Have a Girlfriend and I Think I Know Why, which he co-authored with the writer George Dabagia. The two have often denied that the well-documented turbulence between them began as they composed this homage to the single life.

In 2004, Baroni gave up his seven-year career as a successful trader at the Chicago Board of Trade and took on a job as Copywriter at the fledgling promotions and advertising agency PGC. There, he flourished as he was given ample space to learn and develop creative ideas. In the fall of 2006 he took a position as head of Creative Development at the agency, where he thrives still.

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