Television script-writer and script editor.
Michael Joshua has worked as a television script-writer since at least the early 1980s, when he scripted the Canadian telemovie A Matter of Cunning (co-written with American script-writer Robert Mann and directed by Alan Erlich.
By 1984, however, Joshua was writing for Australian television, with scripts for Prisoner, for which he wrote between 1984 and 1986. Joshua then moved on to The Flying Doctors (1987-1988) and Home and Away (1988-1989).
In the 1990s, Joshua wrote for long-running soap opera Neighbours (1994-1995) and judicial drama State Coroner (1998), but also began what would be a long-running and extensive involvement with Jonathan M. Shiff Productions, Australian television's most prolific producer of young-adult speculative-fiction television. Joshua wrote for Ocean Girl between 1994 and 1997, as well as acting as script editor for the series. He followed this with scripts for Thunderstone, Horace and Tina, and Pirate Islands, while also working as associate story editor on Thunderstone; story consultant, story editor, and script editor on Cybergirl (2001); and associate story editor on Wicked Science (2006).
He was also script editor for the twenty-six episodes of Parallax, a Western Australian produced children's fantasy program.
Since 2000, Joshua has contributed scripts to Something in the Air (2002), short-lived soap opera Headland (2006), and animated fantasy series Legend of Enyo (2010), as well as co-writing the short film Awkwardness with Nicole Klein.