As a playwright, his work has been produced at theaters across North America and internationally.

His play Cowboy Versus Samurai has seen eight productions (including in Canada and Hong Kong) since its premiere in New York City, and has been published in part in Smith and Kraus’s The Best Stage Scenes of 2006 and in whole in their anthology New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2006.

His ten-minute play Heartbreaker was a finalist for the 2009 Actors Theater of Louisville’s National Ten Minute Play Contest / Heideman Award and is available in the anthology Best Ten Minute Plays of 2007. More of Mike’s work is set to be published in Best-Of anthologies for 2008 and 2009.

Mike’s play Build was written under commission from actors Joel de la Fuente and Daniel Dae Kim; His play Year Zero was the Grand Prize Winner of Chicago Dramatists’ 2008 Many Voices Project and was a finalist for the 2009 Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Year Zero was further developed at Chicago’s Tony Award winning Victory Gardens Theater, and world premiered there in 2009. Year Zero received its New York City premiere at Second Stage Theatre in May 2010.

Recently, Mike has been awarded a new playwriting commission from South Coast Repertory with support from the Elizabeth George Foundation; he has also been selected to become a brand new member of New Dramatists (Class of 2016) and a member of Center Theatre Group’s Writers Workshop for 2009-2010.

Mike is also the recipient of a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting.

Michael Golamco was selected by the Tribeca Film Festival for their All Access program in both Film and Theater. He was a Top 50 Project Greenlight screenwriter, and was a finalist for both the ABC/Disney Writing Fellowship and the CBS Television Writing Mentorship.

Mike also presented a new feature film project at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival as part of their All Access: On Track program.

“The Achievers”, his first independent feature film (co-written and directed by Abraham Lim) toured film festivals around the country; his short film “Dragon of Love” (directed by Doan La, produced by Hieu Ho), was selected Best Short Film at the Hawaii International Film Festival and ran in regular rotation on the Sundance Channel.

He is a member of the hot young L.A. Theater Company known as Propergander, and an alumnus of LCC, UCLA’s Asian American theater company.

An avid jogger, Mike runs 40 miles a week. Favorite snacks: Tuna, bananas, toast, hard boiled eggs, and Twix.