Mike McMahan is an American comedy writer and television producer. He is the creator of the animated comedies ''

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'' (with

Justin Roiland Mark Justin Roiland (born February 21, 1980) is an American voice actor, animator, writer, producer, and director. He is best known as the co-creator of Adult Swim's ''Rick and Morty'' and its subsequent franchise. He voices the show's titular ...

) and '' Star Trek: Lower Decks''.

Career

McMahan, a native of Chicago, first worked in production as an assistant at

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. From there, he was hired by

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as a production assistant, and worked on ''

Drawn Together ''Drawn Together'' is an American adult animated sitcom created by Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein and premiered on Comedy Central on October 27, 2004. The series is a parody of ''The Surreal Life'' and follows the misadventures of the housemates ...

'' and ''

South Park ''South Park'' is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for Comedy Central. The series revolves around four boysStan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormickand their ...

''. McMahan served as a writer and producer on ''

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''. He was one of the first writers hired for the series, as he had met co-creator

while working at

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. McMahan described himself as "kind of the sci-fi guy" of the staff, and was promoted to showrunner for the show's fourth season, though he left during production to work on other projects. In 2018, he won the

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for his work as a supervising producer on the episode "

Pickle Rick "Pickle Rick" is the third episode of the third season of the Adult Swim animated television series ''Rick and Morty''. Written by Jessica Gao and directed by Anthony Chun, the episode premiered on August 6, 2017. In "Pickle Rick", the eccentric ...

". On August 28, 2018,

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announced it had ordered an animated comedy ''

'' created by McMahan and Roiland. The series premiered on May 8, 2020. In October 2018, McMahan was announced as the creator of '' Star Trek: Lower Decks'' for

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. More recently, he signed an overall deal with CBS Studios.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McMahan, Mike Living people American television writers Emmy Award winners Television producers from Illinois Writers from Chicago Year of birth missing (living people)