Pre-School, 6+
Mike is an award-winning Irish writer who grounds supernatural and fantastic ideas in fallible characters to explore universal truths about human experience (and sometimes that’s funny).
He graduated from Ireland’s National Film School with The Award for Academic Excellence before working in a variety of media with the likes of Disney, SyFy, RTÉ, Zodiak, and Telegael.
Highlights include a nomination for Best Writer for an Animated Series at the Irish Animation Awards for his first ever animation script, creating a comic book universe where every end of the world happened at once (it’s okay, we survived), writing the world’s first hybrid Broadcast/VR/Webseries for SyFy, being on the launch team with BAFTA winning games studio Romero Games, and adapting a New York Times bestselling fantasy series for TV.
As of 2023 he has a live action comedy/action feature film in development with Screen Ireland, and an Irish language supernatural drama in development with TG4. He will attend the Reykjavik Talent Lab with another supernatural drama feature film, based on a proof of concept short which is on the Oscars longlist after winning “Best Irish Short Film” at the Foyle Film Festival 2023.
He’s created multi-pocalypses, solved real crimes with virtual cops, triggered a super strong baby chicken rampage, designed curriculums for a university of the multiverse, and sent a vampire hunter on a Welsh valley steam-train holiday he took himself (you should go, it’s lovely).
His sweetest spot as a writer is high-concept adventures with a sense of humour, because you get to have imagination, you get to have real story and emotional stakes, and you get to have fun.
Writer of 2 x 5 episodes of animated comedy series from Turnip + Duck.
Additional Writing
Worked closely with writer/director Conor McMahon on his horror/comedy feature film, impacting story structure, conceiving and reconceiving characters, and writing jokes and dialogue.
NOMINATION: Best Script at the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards 2023.
Writer of 3 x 7’ episodes of pre-school comedy series for RAI.
Writer of 3 x 11? episodes of animated sci-fi/comedy.
NOMINATION: Best Writer for an Animated Series at the Irish Animation Awards 2019 for the episode ‘Alpha Chuck’.
Writer & Narrative Designer
Created characters, wrote stories and dialogue, and outlined overarching narrative for multiple releases of this light-hearted sci-fi/fantasy adventure video game with studio Talewind for the platform The Sandbox.
Writer & Narrative Designer
Created characters, wrote stories and dialogue, and outlined overarching narrative for multiple releases of this critically acclaimed prohibition era crime video game with Romero Games.
Writing & Development
15 x 5? episodes (10 Linear Narrative, 5 Virtual Reality) for sci-fi/crime drama.
Groundbreaking series streamed on-line and broadcast on SyFy.
Recognised for Excellence by The Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Writer
Sci-fi/comedy graphic short, published as part of the FLIP! speculative fiction anthology.
An isolated man masquerades as the AI for a self-driving car, but his e?orts to hide himself away from the rest of the world soon wind up having deadly consequences.
Edited by Eisner nominated writer Jack Briglio.
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Writer & Creator
Critically acclaimed comic book series about an unaging (and undead) boy, survivor of the end(s) of the world, hoping to find friends but fearing his true nature.
Established “The Multipocalypse Universe”, currently being exploited in games, VR, and live-action Film & TV.
| Film & Televsion | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| Atom Town (2022) | Turnip + Duck / RTÉ | Writer of 2 x 5 episodes of animated comedy series from Turnip + Duck. |
| Let The Wrong One In (2020) | Tailored Films | Additional Writing Worked closely with writer/director Conor McMahon on his horror/comedy feature film, impacting story structure, conceiving and reconceiving characters, and writing jokes and dialogue. NOMINATION: Best Script at the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards 2023. |
| YoYo (2019) | Rai / Telegael | Writer of 3 x 7’ episodes of pre-school comedy series for RAI. |
| Space Chickens in Space (2017-2018) | Cake Entertainment / Disney | Writer of 3 x 11? episodes of animated sci-fi/comedy. NOMINATION: Best Writer for an Animated Series at the Irish Animation Awards 2019 for the episode ‘Alpha Chuck’. |
| Gaming | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| The Multiversity (2022-2023) | Tailwind / The Sandbox | Writer & Narrative Designer Created characters, wrote stories and dialogue, and outlined overarching narrative for multiple releases of this light-hearted sci-fi/fantasy adventure video game with studio Talewind for the platform The Sandbox. |
| Empire of Sin (2019-2021) | Romero Games / Paradox | Writer & Narrative Designer Created characters, wrote stories and dialogue, and outlined overarching narrative for multiple releases of this critically acclaimed prohibition era crime video game with Romero Games. |
| Halcyon (2016) | Secret Location / SyFy | Writing & Development 15 x 5? episodes (10 Linear Narrative, 5 Virtual Reality) for sci-fi/crime drama. Groundbreaking series streamed on-line and broadcast on SyFy. Recognised for Excellence by The Academy of Arts & Sciences. |
| Comic Books | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| BuddyKar (2020) | Markosia Press | Writer Sci-fi/comedy graphic short, published as part of the FLIP! speculative fiction anthology. An isolated man masquerades as the AI for a self-driving car, but his e?orts to hide himself away from the rest of the world soon wind up having deadly consequences. Edited by Eisner nominated writer Jack Briglio. View pages |
| Zomben (2016-2017) | Titan1 Studios | Writer & Creator Critically acclaimed comic book series about an unaging (and undead) boy, survivor of the end(s) of the world, hoping to find friends but fearing his true nature. Established “The Multipocalypse Universe”, currently being exploited in games, VR, and live-action Film & TV. |