Mike Oquendo is a Chicago born and raised, proud Puerto Rican with a great love for his city and its people. Mike passionately produces Comedy, Theater and Music events both in Chicago and across the country. In his early career, he served on the Board for the National Academy of the Recording Arts & Sciences which created the very first Latin Grammy Awards, and has been a concept contributor for HBO Latino, MSNBC and WGN. His Comedians for Communities fundraisers net thousands of dollars for Chicagoland not-for-profit organizations yearly and his theater productions have been staged in Florida, New York, Puerto Rico, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Mike’s public speaking and professional emcee credits include the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation, the International Latino Cultural Center, the Federal Reserve Bank, the University of Chicago, and the Illinois Institute of Technology to name a few.
His 2019 Off-Broadway production of "Made in Puerto Rico" sold out for seven straight weeks in New York City, and he was the only Latino from Chicago to ever produce a sold out run at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. His recent taping of the John Leguizamo special filmed in Humboldt Park aired on MSNBC in 2023. Mike's 2nd Off-Broadway production at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater ran for 5 weeks this past fall.
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