Micah Wright

Micah Wright is a writer, director, producer, and designer who has worked in film, television, videogames, comic books, virtual reality, and animation. Upon earning a degree in Political Science and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, Micah relocated to Los Angeles and worked at Nickelodeon Animation Studios for six years. While at Nicktoons, Micah worked in the development department on shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants, wrote for "the Angry Beavers" among other shows, and created Nickelodeon's first action-adventure show, Constant Payne (2001). Leaving the world of animation, Micah began writing, designing, and producing videogames. Micah has worked on over 50 games, including such franchises as Looney Tunes, Ratchet & Clank, Transformers, and Call of Duty. For two years, Micah was the network president of FNX: First Nations Experience, the country's only Native American broadcast television network, seen on 26 affiliates in 18 states by 52 million Americans. While at FNX, he led the network into original programming for the first time in its 4-year history, creating 202 episodes of 12 shows he conceived of and produced. Micah is also a political commentator and protest artist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation magazine, the Boston Herald, the LA Weekly, the Village Voice, Fox News, and many others. He has published three books of political writing and propaganda posters. The first book, "YOU Back The Attack, WE'LL Bomb Who We Want" includes a foreword by noted historian Howard Zinn and an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. A tribally enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Micah founded the American Indian Writers Committee at the Writers Guild of America, as well as serving as the chair of the Videogame Writers Caucus of the WGA.