Mike Roe

Mike Roe has spent more than a decade as a journalist for NPR station KPCC, where he’s reported on everything from wildfires to school shootings. Now he covers arts & entertainment and hosts LAist’s TV Pilot Club.

He won an L.A. Press Club award for his oral history of 30 Rock’s “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah,” also writing pop culture histories on topics including Parks & Recreation’s Galentine’s Day and the Los Angeles of Blade Runner.

He’s written for live L.A. talk shows and been part of house sketch teams at several local comedy theaters. He spends his free time writing TV drama scripts with his wife and not sleeping enough.