Hi! I'm Michael Cyril Creighton. You can also call me "MCC" if you like, a lot of people do and I don't mind.  No one calls me "Mike," other than my mother and people from high school. You can also call me a "chubby snake" (the NY Times did) or "Sweaty" (the Village Voice did. Twice.)  I'm an actor and writer based in NY. Grew up on Long Island. Went to Emerson College in Boston.  Lost my accent somewhere in between.

You might know me from any number of things, or not at all. I’m best known for playing the highly emotional, cat loving gossip “Howard Morris” on Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” opposite Steve Martin, Marin Short & Selena Gomez. Recenly I’ve also been seen as the congenial dog lover, “Fred Jr.” on Showtime’s “Dexter: New Blood” and as “Mel,” a cranky comedy writer who loves a stiff drink on the final season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”

I played clergy abuse survivor Joe Crowley in the 2016 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, "Spotlight,” and as part of the ensemble, I received a Robert Altman Award at the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards.

You may have spotted me in Steven Spielberg's  "The Post," in which I play Jake AKA "the guy with the shoebox."  This movie was nominated for a 2018 Academy Award for Best Picture.

Or you could recognize me from HBO's "High Maintenance."  I played Patrick, the lonely agoraphobic who is obsessed with Helen Hunt, La Croix and his dealer.

(You can read a profile on me (and my work in "High Maintenance," "Spotlight" and more)  in the New Yorker by clicking HERE.)

I’ve also been seen crying on my couch while eating tacos and borrowing Splenda packets from various coffee shops around the city.

For my performance as “Kevin” in Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss at Playwright Horizons, I was named a "Face To Watch" in the NY Times and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. I last was seen on stage in the World Premiere of Jordan Harrison's play The Amateurs at The Vineyard Theatre.

I am a Writers Guild Award Winner for my web series "Jack in a Box."

Here are some of my credits:

TELEVISION: Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” (Series Regular), Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (recurring) Showtime’s “Dexter: New Blood” (recurring), Netflix’s “Dash & Lily” (recurring), HBO's "High Maintenance" (recurring), EPIX's "Graves" (recurring), Amazon’s “A League of Their Own”, Netflix’s “AJ & the Queen”, FOX's "Bob's Burgers," Showtime's "Billions," "Horace and Pete," FOX’s “Bob’s Burgers,” CBS's "The Good Fight," Adult Swim's "Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter,"  Showtime's "Nurse Jackie," Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black,” NBC’s “30 Rock,” FX’s “Louie,” CBS's "2 Broke Girls," CBS’s “Person of Interest,"  FX's "Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll," LOGO’s “Jeffery & Cole Casserole.”

FILM:  Cord Jeffereson’s “American Fiction,” Steven Spielberg's "The Post," "Game Night," "Spotlight," "Can You Ever Forgive Me?," “Seneca,” "Home Again," "Coin Heist," "Sleeping With Other People," "Fits and Starts," "3rd Street Blackout," “Towheads,” “How To Follow Strangers,” “Paper Spiders” and “The Outside Story.”

THEATRE: Jordan Harrison's The Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre),  Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss (Playwrights Horizons), Blood Play, Buddy Cop 2, You're Welcome and Cape Disappointment (all with The Debate Society), Joshua Conkel's MilkMilkLemonade and more. I was a founding member of the New York Neo-Futurists and performed weekly in “Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind.”

WEB: I created a web series called “Jack in a Box,” which I starred in, produced, wrote and co-directed. The series ran from 2009-2012 and consisted of 31 episodes, dozens of cupcakes and a fair amount of funny-sad humor. It was written about in several publications and on several websites, including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Time Out New York, Le Monde Paris, The New York Daily News, The AV Club and I was named a “Digital All Star” by Backstage. The series won Best Web Pilot at the 2010 New York Television Festival and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original New Media two consecutive years in a row (2012 & 2013). In 2013, I won that award.  At the awards ceremony I cried in front of some of my idols. Then I ate tiny burgers and called it a night. My mother was very proud.  Other work on the web includes "High Maintenance," "The Outs," "Very Mary-Kate," "Eat Our Feelings" and more.

 I’m a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity and the Writers Guild.

I am represented by Stewart Talent & Industry Entertainment.

I'm glad you are here.