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
THE NIGHT MOVER
The Night Mover by Mickey Fisher Morgan Vanatta wasn’t a magician but he did make people disappear for a living. Wednesday afternoon he was on
TOILING AWAY IN OBSCURITY
Hello! My name is Mickey Fisher and I tell stories for a living. I've been at it in some form or another for nearly thirty
THE FIX-UP
THE FIX-UP by Mickey Fisher On the snow-covered plains of a near-future North Dakota, a decommissioned private security android is reactivated, only to find himself in