Micah Ian Wright

Micah Ian War Dog Wright is a Native American writer who has worked in film, television, animation, video games and comic books. Wright started his career at Nickelodeon where he was an intern, script supervisor, and also a staff writer on The Angry Beavers. It was at Nickelodeon that he became friends with Jay Lender, with whom he would collaborate as a writing partner on numerous projects across various media. Wright got his start in comics with the short lived Stormwatch: Team Achilles. He came to public attention with his anti-war satire posters, which were later compiled into the bookYou Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want. After setbacks, Wright shifted his focus to video games. He co-wrote the titles Destroy All Humans! and Robocalypse with Jay Lender. A member of Writers Guild of America West, he chaired the Video Game Writers Caucus and helped establish the WGA’s first Video Game Writing Award in 2007. He also co-founded the WGA's Native American and World Indigenous Writers Committee. In 2015, he published Duster, a WWII-themed graphic novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter. He also consulted on virtual reality project TheBlu, which lead to a teaching role in virtual reality filmmaking. He co-directed They’re Watching (2016), a horror comedy, and served as Chief Content Manager (2017–2019) for the TV network First Nations Experience, overseeing its first original programming.