Biography
Michael Saikin is an American television writer. Born on 3 September 1981 in Longview, Texas, he began his career in animation as a production assistant on the Futurama direct-to-video films Bender's Big Score (2007), The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008), Bender's Game (2008) and Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009), and on season 5 of the series. He advanced to writing assistant for every episode of season 6.
Saikin received his first writing credit on Futurama for the segment 'The Pinta Island Tortoise' in the anthology episode 'Naturama' (2012). He later worked as additional crew on Axe Cop (2015) and Golan the Insatiable (2014). His most extensive writing role has been as staff writer on Disenchantment (2018), contributing to 30 episodes between 2021 and 2023 and writing three episodes himself. He has also written stories for Simpsons Comics.
