JOSEPH MIRELES is a writer of Mexican and Ukrainian Jewish descent, born in Los Angeles but raised in Gary and Merrillville, Indiana, diverse industrial suburbs of Chicago. A graduate of Columbia College Chicago, Mireles has been working in the film industry for over a decade at development companies such as The Montecito Picture Company and State Street Pictures, and productions such as FOX’s THE ORVILLE, CBS’s EXTANT, and NBC’s AQUARIUS. He became Showrunner’s Assistant to Sera Gamble on Syfy’s THE MAGICIANS and Netflix’s YOU until Mireles was promoted (by Sera Gamble, John McNamara, and Henry Alonso Myers) from Writers’ Assistant to Writer where he co-wrote and produced the penultimate episode (And final musical/heist) of THE MAGICIANS series. Recently, Mireles has written for the NANCY DREW CW spinoff series TOM SWIFT and is producing his upcoming horror feature SOMNIAC with Gold Leaf Films.