Meet The Team
Meet the Team
Meet the team of Hundred Acre Wood
Mike de Seve
Director
Mike de Seve is an Emmy-nominated animation writer and director working in feature films and television. He is founder of Baboon Animation, a collective of some of the most accomplished animation writers in the US, with 31 Emmys among them and clients including Disney, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Warner Brothers.
At DreamWorks, Mike was a script consultant on six films, including Madagascar (on which he was also a sequence director), Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third, and he co-wrote the original story, with Mark Osborne, for Monsters vs. Aliens. At Paramount, Mike was a director and writer on the feature film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. In Television, Mike has head-written and/or directed for such iconic series as Angry Birds Toons, Sesame Street, Pocoyo and Saturday Night Live, and for numerous major clients such as Disney, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Television. He’s lately focused on applying his company’s skills and relationships toward progressive causes -- such as the launch of Baboon Animation Africa, integrating BIPOC talent into the industry, and addressing climate change with fun kids’ content.
John Reynolds
Screenwriter
Reynolds is an Emmy and Peabody award winning comedy writer who was most recently the head writer for the Film Independent Spirit Awards on IFC, hosted by Aubrey Plaza, where he also wrote and directed sketches starring Bill Murray. His other late night wri]ng experience includes Comedy Central’s “The President Show” and six years as a staff writer and performer on “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” on CBS. He also wrote on the reboot of “Rocky and Bullwinkle” and was the head writer for “The Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show,” both animated series produced by Dreamworks.
Reynolds is an original member of the UCB Theater’s weekend team, “Reuben Williams,” and still performs at the UCBT in LA and NY.
On the “Late Late Show,” Reynolds’ monologue jokes made the weekly “best of late night” lists.
John has developed pilots and various other projects over the past few years with CBS, NBC, Fox, Warner Brothers, Jim Henson, Gary Sanchez, Conaco, History Channel and the Disney Channel.