He got his start in theater with home training with his uncle Pablo Figueroa, an independent film maker. He was later enrolled at HB Studio where he studied Scene Study and Improv under Uta Hagen and Trudy Steible respectively. Over the years, Mike has appeared in a number of Off-Off Broadway productions, independent and adult films, mostly recently as Larry in Goodby Seventies, Steve in Available Light and the upcoming This Side of Heaven film by Todd Verow.

As a member of Mirror Repertory Company Mike honed his skills with acclaimed Broadway veteran Sabra Jones-McAteer and with Alan Gordon of the Alan Gordon Studio in Greenwich Village and other workshops.