Mike is best known to Australian audiences for his portrayal of Paul Keating in Casey Bennetto's hugely successful production of Keating! The Musical. At the end of August 2008 Mike completed three years of touring the country as the star of this seemingly unstoppable show.

Before Keating! came into his life Mike had been performing as an actor and musician for nearly fifteen years, making appearances in a string of independent, Melbourne-based productions including Six Degrees of Separation, The Art of Success, Huge, Speaking In Thongs, Still and Face2Face. Mike has also provided sound design and musical scores for a variety of theatre companies including Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Theatre In Decay, St. Martin's Youth Arts Centre and Theatre@Risk.

Mike also performed in Casey Bennetto's show "A Largely Fanciful History Of The Spiegeltent" as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Most recently Mike appeared as Michael Slater, Mark Waugh and Darryl Cullinan in Shane Warne The Musical.