Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

I’m going to tell you a story, and it’s true. . . . I always have to tell people that.
So asserts comedian-turned-playwright-turned-filmmaker Mike Birbiglia directly to the viewer at the outset of his autobiographically inspired, fictional feature debut. Birbiglia wears his incisive wit on his sleeve while portraying a cinematic surrogate. We are thrust into the tale of a burgeoning stand-up comedian struggling with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship threatening to race out of his control, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.

Based on the successful one-man show, Sleepwalk With Me engages in the kind of passionate and personal storytelling that transfigures intimate anguish into comic art. Bursting with sincerity, Mike Birbiglia’s foray into the medium marks the invigorating emergence of a strong and poignant American voice, at once hilarious and heartbreaking.

Award Winner
Best of NEXT Audience Award
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Mike Birbiglia is a comedian, actor, and director best known for his off‐Broadway hits Sleepwalk With Me and My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend. His recent COMEDY CENTRAL Records album debuted on Billboard’s comedy album charts, and his literary debut, Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories, was a New York Times best seller and a finalist for the 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor. He has made over 40 appearances on network talk shows and has been featured on This American Life.