Jon Cooksey

Jon Cooksey is a writer/producer/showrunner who works in all genres of film, television and digital -- including comedy, drama, sci fi and family -- and has won or been nominated for Emmy, Humanitas, Gemini, Leo and Cable Ace awards in TV, plus numerous awards for his comedic feature documentary about saving civilization, How to Boil a Frog. Details of current TV projects are on the Fools Bay Entertainment website. Previous credits as showrunner include Arctic Air, Shattered, The Best Years and his original series The Collector. He's developed 14 pilots for various prodcos and networks, including Comedy Central, FX and ITV (UK), and has run series for Disney Channel and Nickelodeon in the US, for Rogers, Global, CBC and Space in Canada. Altogether he's produced over 150 hours of TV. On the feature side, he's recently finished The Oracle's Wife, a biopic about M. King Hubbert, one of the great minds of the 20th century who foresaw the end of the Oil Age, and Hindenburg LZ-129, a film noir thriller that uses the famous disaster as a springboard. He's now working on another historical thriller, based on IP, about the largest lynching in US history. He's also writing and producing a high-budget tech demo for AMD, to be premiered in 2019. Details are covered by NDA, but in general his goal is to break the boundaries of current entertainment silos, creating broad audiences across multiple platforms (MR/AR/VR, games, TV series, movies, live events, storyworlds, theme park rides, etc.), with stories that have an international appeal. He's a dual citizen of the US and Canada, and a member of WGA, WGC and WGGB.