Mike Jones is a producer, writer, and story developer with near two decades of experience across scripted drama and comedy. His work spans more than twenty broadcast series and feature productions garnering numerous accolades including AACTA, Emmy, Rockie, AWG, Logie, SPA, SeriesMania, and ADG awards. With recognised expertise in thriller, mystery, and horror genres, Mike is equally at home in big-hearted narrative comedy.
His collaborations include major international TV dramas - The Gloaming, The Kettering Incident, Eden, DeadhouseDark, and Ms Fishers’s Modern Mysteries along with much loved dramedies - F*cking Adelaide, Other People's Problems and Emmy-nominated Wrong Kind of Black. Mike was co-creator and writer of the hit supernatural mystery, The Orchard, starring Eric Bana and Magda Szubanski for Amazon's Audible. Other producing credits include ACCTA-winning youth drama, Deadlock and hit comedy and family features Sunburnt Christmas, Christmas Ransom, and Windcatcher starring Jessica Mauboy. Previous projects include multi award-winning short film Rebooted and was EP of international cult hit series Wastelander Panda.
Mike has long been a highly regarded script developer both in Australia and overseas having worked with companies including the ABC, WarnerBros, Jungle, 2Jons, Princess Pictures, BBC Studios, and was Head of Content and Development at Every Cloud, one of Australia’s foremost independent screen production companies whose credits include international hit series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.
Aside from television and film production Mike is a published horror novelist and co-creator of ground-breaking interactive projects VRNoir and the psychedelic immersive drama, Awake. His early career included journalism and writing for the theatre where he was twice recipient of national young playwright’s awards. He previously served as a development executive to ScreenAustralia, Executive Producer for the ABC, and lectured in story and writing at the Australian Film TV & Radio School.
Mike is a full member of Screen Producers Australia (SPA), the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), and the Australian Writers Guild (AWG).