About Mickey Fisher
MICKEY FISHER
MICKEY FISHER (Creator/Writer) is the creator of the sci-fi event series EXTANT (CBS), Executive Produced by Steven Spielberg and Amblin Television, starring Halle Berry, and REVERIE (NBC), Executive Produced by Amblin Television, starring Sarah Shahi.
He was also a Consulting Producer on MARS (NatGeo), Executive Produced by Ron Howard and Imagine, a Co-Executive Producer for THE STRAIN (FX), Executive Produced by Guillermo Del Toro and Carlton Cuse, Consulting Producer for Season Two of JACK RYAN (Amazon), Executive Produced by Carlton Cuse.
Fisher’s sci-fi play REPLICA had its world premiere at Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston in 2018. Originally from Ironton, Ohio, Mickey attended The University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music for Musical Theater. Mickey is repped by WME.
Most recently, Fisher is co-creating FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER for Netflix, based on the novel by Angeline Boulley, Executive Produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions.
Featured Work
“One of Fisher’s first scripts for television wound up becoming a series produced by Spielberg’s Amblin TV banner for CBS with Halle Berry starring. All because he entered a screenwriting contest.” (full story here)
“Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions has unveiled a new slate of projects at Netflix… Mickey Fisher (National Geographic’s Mars, NBC’s Reverie) will serve as showrunner and co-write with Wenonah Wilms, who like Boulley is from the Ojibwe tribe. Fisher and Wilms executive produce” (full story here)
““Reverie” is a grounded, dramatic thriller about a former detective specializing in human behavior who is brought in when the launch of an advanced virtual reality program has dangerous and unintended consequences.” (full story here)
Research and Development
FROM THE PEN OF MICKEY FISHER
WEEKENDS WITH GG
Weekends With GG A Flash Fiction Story by Mickey Fisher On Friday nights, after she finished her studies, Iona and her grandma would make Rice Krispie
THE HUNGARIAN INCIDENT
The Hungarian Incident by Mickey Fisher Morgan Vanatta parked his Typhoon at the base of Bonnie Brae and hiked the steep quarter mile up to