Media Stories About Mike Broemmel and His Work

Playwright Mike Broemmel will see his second one-actor play about an LGBTQ+ historical figure hit the stage at United Solo this fall at Theatre Row in Midtown. The Wind Is Us: The Death that Killed Capote starring Eddie Schumacher will be part of the 2024 festival of solo actor productions on October 12, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. Broemmel’s play about LGBTQ+ rights leader Harvey Milk, I’m Harvey Milk, was part of the 2023 United Solo Festival.

Six boxes of candy cigarettes and a crystal ashtray rest on the corner of a table center "stage," facing an audience of 22 people sitting semi-circle in the basement of Auraria’s Golda Meir House Museum.

"Helen Bonfils is a little more well-known than she was ten years ago, but I hope this broadens people's understanding of who she was and even excites them," says Mike Broemmel, author of The Bonfils Girl.

Promises that the historic Elitch Theatre will one day be restored to its previous glory have been whistling in the northwest Denver wind for 37 agonizing years. The Bonfils Girl is Mike Broemmel’s one-woman play on the life of former Denver Post publisher Helen Bonfils, whose money was used to build the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. 

The Wind Is Us: The Death that Killed Capote by Mike Broemmel, follows the life of author Truman Capote from his days researching his iconic “non-fiction novel” In Cold Blood until his death in 1984.

The Salida Theatre Festival kicks off this week with a series of live performances and workshops. Two of the intriguing productions featured are Taking Tea with the Ripper and The Wind Is Us: The Death that Killed Capote, about Jack the Ripper and Truman Capote respectively. Both plays are by playwright Mike Broemmel, whose other work has been featured in Salida with regularity over the past 10 years.