MIKE J. BAIREUTHER
728 Park Rd. NW Unit 2 Washington, DC 20010, (717) 314-4764
mikebaireuther@gmail.com / mikebaireuther.com
DISCOVERY INC
Supervising Producer, Discovery Agency Branded Entertainment (May 2013 – Present)
- Concept, pitch, write, and produce content and live events following agency best practices
- Shark Week & Volkswagen integrated marketing and digital content campaigns
- Puppy Bowl & Subaru custom content and integrated marketing campaign
- OWN’s “Tyler Perry Comes To OWN,” launch campaign
- Full knowledge of Adobe Creative suite, production disciplines, and technical processes, responsible for setting priorities and solving problems on the fly in fast-paced, client facing, production environment
- Write and produce 360-degree video content for Discovery VR, generating over 5 million views
- CableFax “Overachiever Under 30” for 2016
- Discovery Creative Agency’s “Most Creative Person” for 2013
- 2018 Winter Olympic Games Eurosport Documentarian & Ambassador
Copywriter, Discovery Creative, (Jan 2012 – May 2013)
- Copywriter for marketing campaigns on the following projects:
- Shark Week 25 and “Chompdown” Special featuring YouTube personality Phil DeFranco
- Discovery Channel’s print and digital campaigns for “Gold Rush” and “Deadliest Catch"
TURNER BROADCASTING
Production Assistant, TNT, On-Air Creative Services (Jan 2010 – Jan 2012)
- Write and produce promos, supervise edit sessions, and direct VO talent
Writer, Cartoon Network, “Run It Back” (Oct 2010 – May 2011)
- Write hosted, in-studio segments for episodes, interstitials and in-episode graphics
- “Run It Back” was an hour-long show that aired Sunday mornings on Cartoon Network
- Each episode featured the NBA “Game of the Week” on TNT, editing the action down to one-hour filled with special effects, “how-to” segments, and in-studio features targeted at kids
Writer, “The Riff,” TBS.com (April 2010 – August 2011)
- Author scripts for TBS.com’s daily, comedic clip show, “The Riff”
- The Riff was daily, short-form comedy content that aggregated and commented on viral web videos, prioritized by audience response, similar to “The Soup.”
T3 Trainee, Cartoon Network Consumer Marketing, On-Air Creative (July 2008 – Dec 2009)
- Cartoon Network Re-Branding
- Pitched network re-branding concepts to network executives, and contributed to project ultimately submitted to network president
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
Class of 2008, Magna Cum Laude with a BA in History and minors in Journalism and Entrepreneurship
- Awarded 2008 Entrepreneurship Department seed grant for “Lightning Brothers Comic Book”
- Studied under Maya Angelou in her class, “Modern Poetry Performance.”
- Lilting Banshees Comedy Troupe (2004-2008) Writer, Actor, and Director (2007-2008)
Additional Interests
Story District: Performer, Co-Director, Faculty member
- Much like “The Moth,” Story District features true stories told live for audiences over 1,200.