Mike Sussman was born in Philadelphia, but spent most of his youth in the Gulf Coast resort town of Sarasota, Florida. After studying film and screen writing at Florida State University, Mike began his television career as a newscast producer for WWSB-TV, the ABC affiliate in Sarasota. During his tenure, he produced the station's eleven o'clock news as well as their Presidential election coverage.Mike subsequently relocated to Los Angeles to write for KCAL's Emmy Award-winning Prime 9 News. He took a leave of absence from broadcast journalism after accepting a Writers Guild of America internship on Star Trek: Voyager. After several freelance assignments, Mike joined the writing staff of Voyager as a story editor. In 2001, he signed aboard the next installment in the Star Trek saga, Enterprise, eventually rising to the level of Producer. All told, Mike has written or co-written more than thirty hours of Star Trek under the tutelage of showrunners Kenneth Biller, Brannon Braga, and Manny Coto.During the final season of Enterprise, UPN invited viewers to vote for their all-time favorite episode of the series. The Sussman-penned episode "Twilight," a time-twisting love story, aired on the network as the "#1 Fan Favorite episode." At the end of the season, New York Daily News TV critic David Bianculli hailed Mike's "In a Mirror, Darkly" two-part episode as "the best hours of Enterprise yet."After leaving the Star Trek franchise, Mike was hired as a writer and Supervising Producer on the CBS drama Threshold, acclaimed by TV Guide as one of the best new series of the 2005-2006 season.
