Mike Jones is a screen 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, and DeadhouseDark. Much loved dramedies - F*cking Adelaide, Other People's Problems and Emmy-nominated Wrong Kind of Black, as well as ACCTA-winning youth drama, Deadlock and hit comedy and family features Sunburnt Christmas, Christmas Ransom, and Windcatcher starring Jessica Mauboy. He collaborated on multi award-winning short films Rebooted and The Hitchhiker, and was co-creator and writer of the hugely successful supernatural mystery, The Orchard, starring Eric Bana and Magda Szubanski for Amazon's Audible.
Mike has long been a highly regarded script developer and previously worked with companies including the ABC, WarnerBros, Jungle, 2Jons, and Princess Pictures, and is currently 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 and lectured in story and writing at the Australian Film TV & Radio School.
Mike is a full member of the Australian Writers Guild (AWG), Screen Producers Australia (SPA), and the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA).