A veteran Hollywood writer, Mike Fasolo, is a 3-time Emmy Award and 2-time Annie Award winner for his work on the sledgehammer operatic that is Robot Chicken. He’s also taken on many other roles in the Hollywood landscape – Creative Director, Voice Actor, Video Editor, and Consulting Producer. He’s written for multiple shows from multiple networks including Cartoon Network (MAD: The Animated Series, The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange), Marvel Animation/Disney (Marvel’s Spider-Man), The SYFY Network (Devil May Care) and Nickelodeon (SpongeBob SquarePants).
Short version
Mike Fasolo has been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a…no, wait. That was Frank Sinatra. Mike is not Frank Sinatra. But he does have a few things Frank didn’t. Three Primetime Emmy Awards. Yup. Three of them. And two Annie Awards (the highest honor in animation). Mike has been a writer, a screenwriter, a novelist, a director, a producer, and a video editor. Sounds interesting, right? Well, keep reading. It only gets better.
Long Version
It all began when he left his tiny little hamlet in NY and drove across these United States to set up shop beneath the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles. (Well, not literally beneath it, but you get the gist). His job? Writing for the sledgehammer operatic known as Robot Chicken (where he won his Emmys and Annie’s). At RC he held several titles – Staff writer for 11 seasons, Creative Director, Consulting Producer, Voice Actor, and Man of the People. Along with Robot Chicken he’s written for Marvel’s Spider-Man, SpongeBob SquarePants, MAD: The Animated Series, and The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange.
In 2020 he and a co-writer finished their first novel – Skymaster – a hilariously raunchy space adventure. It is currently being shopped around to book publishers. They also plan on turning this into a comic series. Artwork is currently in production and will be finished soon. And, if all goes well, it will one day become a feature length movie, written, of course, by Fasolo.
In 2019 he produced his first movie – Party Time – which won 9 awards from across the spectrum of short indy films and starred actor Ahmed Best. The short has been turned into a feature length script and has been pitched to multiple producers and directors.
Before venturing to Hollywood, Mike was a researcher, a writer, and an editor at Wizard Magazine (Wizard Entertainment Group). That was one of those entertainment magazines of the 90s. It did pretty well, too. Had something like 3 million readers every month. Mike wrote and edited stories, wrote articles, interviewed writers and artists, ran convention booths, and was on the second place team for their Foosball league. He was just getting over the flu the day of the championship game so he wasn’t up to his usual winning standard. But, hey, second place is pretty good.