Screenplays,
Stage Plays & Fiction

From a Sundance and Vail Film Festival-honored
screenwriter, playwright, and author.

  • Short Play
  • World Series of Screen
  • Slamdance
  • CWA
  • Kairos Prize
  • Vail Film Festival

A grand prize finalist for screenwriting at the Slamdance Film Festival. A top finisher for the Nicholl Fellowship from the Motion Picture Academy, the people who bring you the Academy Awards. A finalist in screenplay competitions from the Vail Film Festival to the Kairos Prize. And an award-winning playwright with more than 20 produced titles, most on New York City stages.

His work ranges from thrillers (Propaganda, Pretty Things, How to Save Your Own Life) to romantic comedies (Brad Pitt, Arithmetic for Art Majors) and award-winning character monologues (Hostages, Cowboy Redux).

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    Beth Lasky / Executive Communications Manager, Sodexo

  • "If you want a talk about speechwriting and expect a nice lecture about the ins and outs of basic speechwriting, don’t hire Mike Long. Because Mike does not go for the niceties and the clichés, he goes right to the gut, the underbelly of speechwriting."

    Renee Broekmeulen / Founder, The Dead Horse Society (Netherlands Speechwriters Network)

  • "What truly sets him apart are his abilities and intuition as a teacher and trainer. He embodies the old writer’s maxim of showing instead of telling and in so doing is uniquely suited to help people tell powerful stories and sell compelling arguments on their own."

    Dan Gerstein / Founder & CEO, Gotham Ghostwriters

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    Dana Rubin / Founder & Director, Leadership Communicators Roundtable

  • "Mike Long is one of those rare birds whose vast writing skills are rivaled only by his knack for teaching his craft."

    Allan Reetz / Cooperative Communicators Association, Education Committee Chair

  • "The day after I sat in on Mike Long’s PR writing class, I applied the lesson the very next day at work and couldn’t wait to share the information with my colleagues."

    Tonya J. Williams / America’s Promise Alliance

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    Renee Broekmeulen / Founder, The Dead Horse Society (Netherlands Speechwriters Network)

  • "I just wish I could clone him."

    Dan Gerstein / Founder & CEO, Gotham Ghostwriters

  • “A big thanks for coming to Lisbon to lead and deliver a two-day training course to all of our European communications leadership team. The seminar was highly engaging and entertaining, and all participants learned loads about how to prepare for and write an excellent speech. I look forward to seeing the results as the teams put in practice all that they learned.”

    Fiona / Communications Director, Europe, for a global top-ten pharmaceutical company

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    Reg Downs / Senior Advisor to Brad Wall, Premier of Saskatchewan

  • “Mike Long came to London to deliver a training workshop. It proved very popular. And unlike other workshops, you didn’t just learn the skills, you learnt the strategy for getting a speech accepted within an organisation.”

    Brian Jenner / Founder, European Speechwriter Network

  • "Mike Long is a prolific writer in many forms and one brilliant teacher of speechwriting—insightful, philosophical, personable, funny, and best in big doses. His personality is so large and compelling that it adds needed color to the camouflaged speechwriting industry.”

    David Murray / editor and publisher, Vital Speeches of the Day; executive director, Professional Speechwriters Association

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