Mike is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning director, writer, and producer and is the owner and Chief Creative Officer of Pipsqueak Animation. Mike is known for creating and showrunning Get My Goat (Peacock Kids) Fifi: Cat Therapist (Peacock Kids) and Samurai! Daycare (Defy Media/SMOSH). His directing work also includes The Adventures of Baxter & McGuire (Comedy Central) which screened in competition at Sundance and Annecy, and The Zit (PBS) which screened in 100-plus festivals and won many international awards. Mike was the showrunner of Super Slackers for David Silverman (The Simpsons) and has had development deals with Cartoon Network, Disney and Lion Forge Animation. His studio’s clients include DreamWorks TV, Netflix, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, MTV, Sesame Street, StoryCorps and Explosm Entertainment. His latest original project is Barkster Kid Songs – a song-based, social and emotional learning channel on YouTube.

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