Mike Funk

About me:

Mike was born and raised in Massapequa, Long Island. Adopted before he was born, where his father was in the military for thirty six years and his mother raised four children, including his sisters Jeanne, Carol and Susan. From an early age he was always interested in the arts. At the age of twelve he was inspired to take up piano lessons from a "Street Performer" who he saw riding on the Circle Line in New York City. During his high school years is where he worked very hard on his craft, with excelling in music and art, and also sang in the choir. From this point on, Mike pursued music. After graduating high school Mike then decided to go to college for music and was accepted to the prestigious Berklee College of Music where he studied Film Scoring. During his college years Mike worked on a Children's television show "Zebby's Zoo" which he was the voice of the character Nigel and wrote many skits’ including Nigels theme "Telling Time." From his experience in working on the TV series, Mike made a decision to pursue acting. This became very clear to him when he saw some friends perform the musical "Hair" at the Boston Conservatory; Mike was drawn to the acting and stage performance. After college, Mike returned to New York and quickly enrolled into an acting program in New York City. Working a full time job, he took classes in the evenings and on weekends. Mike studied acting at The Acting Studio, inc. With teacher James Price who taught at the Neighborhood Playhouse under the tutelage of Mr. Miesner. Mike studied the Miesner technique over the years and absorbed everything he can about acting, with a great understanding and passion and drive. Since graduating from The Acting Studio; Inc. Mike has appeared in several episodes of "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment", an episode of "ED", Three episodes in “Sex and The City” (season 6), Season Premiere of Cashmere Mafia and appeared in Marriot hotel and Qantas airlines commercials. Mike shot his first feature film, "Survive this"(2005) which is now available to rent on DVD at Netflix.com and Amazon.com Mike continues to grow as an actor and hone is craft. ****UPDATE 2009**** the past six months Mike has wrapped three films (This Girl for Hire, Teenage Sorority Vampires and Satan Hates you). He recently worked on the TV show “Rescue Me” in the episode “Wheels and Initiation” which will air this April. He is currently preparing for a table reading of a feature film.