Mike Dobbins

Mike Dobbins was born in Huntington, West Virginia where he first performed in the 1st grade as "The Tallest Man in WV". He participated in community theater beginning in the 6th grade. Mike moved to Daytona Beach, Florida in the 9th grade where he attended Campbell Jr. High and Seabreeze Senior High concentrating mostly on writing, music, and skateboarding. After high school, he took a acting class at a local community college. Because of a one-time horrible feeling of "freezing-going blank" during a scene playing Sherlock Holmes, he did not accept an offered acting scholarship at the end of the class. So Mike temporarily walked away from acting though not from comedy. While attending West Virginia Wesleyan College, studying Political Science and Philosophy, Mike explored comedic characters on the college radio station while trying to make everybody laugh at parties the rest of the time. After college, he returned to acting pursuits studying briefly at the Studio Theater Acting Conservatory in Washington, DC and then performed stand-up comedy for the first time at "Wise Acres Comedy Club" in Tyson's Corner, Virginia. Mike then moved back to Florida and studied improvisational comedy at Sak Comedy Theater in Orlando. After acting in local films and on a Japanese TV show, he performed live comedy more intensely and then decided to make a move to NYC/Brooklyn. Since then, Dobbins has developed into a unique comedic performer that is a staple in New York City's Downtown Comedy Scene. He was featured in "Time Out New York" magazine which gave him 4 stars for his solo comedic show entitled "A Stand-Upish Set of Koo Koo" and deemed him "profoundly funny in the flesh". His "A Stand-Upish Set of Koo Koo" was also nominated for "best one person show" for a 2007 ECNY Award. In 2005, Mike was a semi-finalist in the 2nd annual Andy Kaufman award in the New York Comedy Festival. He has studied improvisation at the "Magnet Theater" and "People's Improv Theater" in NYC. He lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn.. Show less «