Mike Buzzelli is a screenwriter, story editor and stand up comedian. He has optioned two feature screenplays — both comedies — to independent production companies.
Mike has been honored with awards from the Venice Arts Screenwriting Competition, America's Best Screenplay Competition, Writer's Digest Competition and the One in Ten Screenplay Competition. He has received other national merits and awards.
Mike's comic book Normal will be published by Warpton Comics in the United Kingdom later this year. The four issue miniseries features teens who overcome adversity with the help of their unique gifts. In addition, he is a contributing writer for Prism Comics, and a film and theatre critic for Campus Circle. His two reader's theater plays for children have been performed in Norfolk, Virginia.
As a stand up comedian, he has performed at The Comedy Store, The Ice House, Masquer's Cabaret and coffee houses throughout Southern California.
As an actor, Mike performed in The Big Show at the PanAndreas Theatre in Los Angeles, and can be seen in television episodes of Girls Behaving Badly ,LA Forensics, and in David Quantic's gay and lesbian short film King County.
He writes a weekly humor column for the Washington Observer-Reporter, www.observer-reporter.com, and is a contributor to www.Patch.com.
Buzzelli's book "Below Average Genius," a compilation of humor columns from the Observer-Reporter is available now at www.amazon.com