Mike Nawrocki

Michael Lewis Nawrocki better known as Mike Nawrocki (born July 8th, 1966 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American voice actor, writer, animator and director.

He is the co-founder of Big Idea and co-creator of VeggieTales with Phil Vischer. He is also the writer and director for most of the Silly Songs with Larry segments, and also the voice actor of Larry.

Voices

Larry/Larry-Boy (1993-2022)
Jerry Gourd (1995-2022)
The Peach
Scallion #2 (1993-2022)
Scallion #3 (2021)
Mike Asparagus (The Star of Christmas, Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie Outtakes, An Easter Carol. only)
Oscar
Jean Claude Pea (1996-2022)
Dirk Evert (Abe and the Amazing Promise only)
Krazy Kenny (Celery Night Fever and LarryBoy and the Menacing Mushroom; LarryBoy and the Angry Eyebrows Trouble (original cut))
Mother Nezzer
The Milk-Money Bandit (LarryBoy and the Emperor of Envy)
Kevin (theme song only)
Charlie Pincher (singing only)

Written

VeggieTales

God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?! (co-written with Phil Vischer; Larry's Lagoon segment only)
Very Silly Songs! (co-written with Phil Vischer)
Madame Blueberry (co-written with Phil Vischer)
The End of Silliness?
King George and the Ducky (Englishman segment only)
Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen (co-written with Phil Vischer)
The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown
The Wonderful World of Auto-Tainment!
A Snoodle's Tale (Dr. Jiggle segment only)
Sumo of the Opera (St. Patrick segment only)
LarryBoy and the Bad Apple (co-written with Richard Liebmann-Smith)
Gideon: Tuba Warrior (George Mueller segment only)
Moe and the Big Exit
Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue (co-written with Phil Vischer, Jeremy Bargiel, and Robert G. Lee)
Abe and the Amazing Promise (co-written with Phil Vischer, Mark Steele, Tim Hodge, and Sean Roche)
Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella (co-written with Tim Hodge)
Saint Nicholas: A Story of Joyful Giving (co-written with Phil Vischer and Robert G. Lee)
Pistachio - The Little Boy That Woodn't (co-written with Mark Steele and Phil Vischer)
Sweetpea Beauty (co-written with Mark Steele)
It's a Meaningful Life (co-written with Mark Steele and Brian Roberts)
'Twas the Night Before Easter (co-written with Tim Hodge and Mark Steele)
Princess and the Popstar (co-written with Mark Steele and Brian Roberts)
The Little Drummer Boy (co-written with Mark Steele and Brian Roberts)
Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men (co-written with Mark Steele, Tim Hodge, and Brian Roberts)
The Penniless Princess (co-written with Mark Steele)
The League of Incredible Vegetables (co-written with Mark Steele)
The Little House That Stood (co-written with Cory Edwards, Eric Newman, and Mark Steele)
MacLarry and the Stinky Cheese Battle (co-written with Dustin Ballard, Philip Walton, and Mark Steele)
Merry Larry and the True Light of Christmas (co-written with Cory Edwards, Tim Hodge, and Brian Roberts)
Veggies in Space: The Fennel Frontier (co-written with Cory Edwards)
Celery Night Fever (co-written with Bart Coghlin and Cory Edwards)
Beauty and the Beet (co-written with Brian Roberts, Cory Edwards, and Len Uhley)
Noah's Ark (co-written with Len Uhley, Cory Edwards, and Tab Murphy)

3-2-1 Penguins!

Trouble on Planet Wait-Your-Turn (co-written with Phil Vischer, Jeff Parker, Ron Smith, Nathan Carlson, and Phil Lollar)
The Cheating Scales of Bullamanka (co-written with Phil Vischer and Ron Smith)
The Amazing Carnival of Complaining (co-written with Phil Vischer, Ron Smith, and Tom Owens)

VeggieTales in the City

The VeggieTales Show

Compilations

Lessons from the Sock Drawer (co-written with Phil Vischer)
Larry Learns to Listen
Bob Lends a Helping Hand
God Loves You Very Much
If I Sang A Silly Song...
Little Ones Can Do Big Things Too!
Lettuce Love One Another!
Parade of Animals

Films

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (co-written with Phil Vischer)

Directed

Episodes

Films

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (co-directed with Phil Vischer)
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

Silly Songs

Fun Facts

Mike states if he picks either fries or chocolate, he'll go for the fries.
Mike's favorite shows are "Downton Abbey" and "The Simpsons".
His favorite character from television is Sue Heck from "The Middle", as she's a human version of Larry.
He used to have a pony tail.
He originally wanted to have a career in the medicine field, but he gave that up as the success of VeggieTales began to rise.
He is of Polish descent.
He has a bad back and he threw it out after sitting on a chair with a high hutch during production on Very Silly Songs!.
Married to a Colombian woman named Lisa.
During the early years of VeggieTales, he was doing a lot of free lance work to earn money due to Big Idea not making a lot of money.
On the 2008 reprint of Where's God When I'm S-Scared?, Mike Nawrocki did a message concerning the 15th anniversary of that show.
He has two kids: Ally and Michael Jr.
His favorite type of pizza is Canadian bacon (also known as ham) and pineapple.
He edited the 1998-2000 VeggieTales Theme Song.
Around 1993 to 1998, Mike Nawrocki also worked as the official film editor and sound effects editor for the show. By the time Madame Blueberry came out, he gave his editing jobs to John Wahba. The last VeggieTales project he edited were the sounds in "His Cheeseburger," in which he supported all of the after effects and audio editing, but John Wahba still did all of the sound effects.