[9] Daisey presented his 24-hour monologue All the Hours in the Day (2011) at Portland's TBA Festival in September 2011,[10] emphasizing themes of loss, transformation, and the desire for authenticity.

[18] Two months later, This American Life officially retracted the episode, having discovered that some of the personal experiences described by Daisey in his monologue had been exaggerated or fabricated.

[20] Since the controversy, Daisey has reformed his work and has continued to perform it, removing the five minutes of contested details and standing by his assertions that the conditions in Apple's supply chain violate China's own labor laws and remain inhumane.

[21] He has performed this new version in six cities, including a run at Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theater, where Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak joined the show for a post-performance discussion on August 4, 2012.

[23] "Jade Esteban Estrada knows how to draw an audience in and hold them in the palm of his hand," wrote Deborah Martin of the San Antonio Express-News.

He puts that skill to fine use in The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a solo show written by Mike Daisey exploring the cult of tech giant Apple.

[27] Daisey's first play[clarification needed] The Moon Is a Dead World premiered at the Annex Theatre in Seattle, Washington on October 17, 2008.

[32] Jason Zinoman of the New York Times describes Daisey as having "a preoccupation with alternative histories, secrets large and small, and the fuzzy line where truth and fiction blur.

(2005) is critical of capitalism and details the rivalry between Edison and Tesla,[36] while Great Men of Genius (2006) profiled Bertolt Brecht, showman P.T.

He has the curiosity of a highly literate dilettante and a preoccupation with alternative histories, secrets large and small, and the fuzzy line where truth and fiction blur.

"[33] Louise Kennedy described his monologues in the Boston Globe as "Sharp-witted, passionately delivered talk about matters both small and huge, at once utterly individual and achingly universal.