Playing with Stars while Swimming with Sharks: An Evening with Mike Haley

Tickets on sale now, $25 each—https://www.gcc.mass.edu/events/an-evening-with-mike-haley/

Join filmmaker—and local celebrity—Mike Haley as he discusses examples of the Murphy’s Law adage, “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" as it applies to films he has helped make. With over 60 feature films and 18 television movies under his belt, Haley has extensive experience as an actor, assitant director and producer.

He has worked with some of American’s greatest directors including Sidney Lumet, Sidney Pollock, Barry Levinson, Penny Marshall, Harold Ramis and Mike Nichols. His relationship with Nichols spans 30 years and 13 films including Biloxi Blues, Working Girl, Primary Colors, Angels in America and Charlie Wilson’s War. He’s also worked with actors and actresses including Katherine Hepburn, Harrison Ford, Meryl Streep, Madonna and Morris the Cat. He’s had a prolific career as an actor in roles opposite Sophia Loren, Christian Slater and John Travolta and played the umpire who throws Tom Hanks out of the game after the classic scene "There’s no crying in baseball!" in A League of Their Own. Mike has received two Humanitas Prizes, The Christopher Award, a Directors Guild of America citation and an Emmy.

Locally, Mike is a member of Greenfield's troupe Rosie Caine and her Wilde Irish Women and continues to appear in many local productions. He’s writing a book about his career in the film industry and has lived with Joan, his best friend and wife for the past 25 years in Conway, Massachusetts, where he is affectionately known as "Sir Reginald Buttwinker."

Tickets are $25; all proceeds go to GCC's theater program and the Daniel J. Haley Scholarship Fund which provides scholarships to engineering and science students planning to transfer to UMass–Amherst. (Event scholarships are available, email communityed@gcc.mass.edu to inquire.)