Michael White

Michael White is an Irish writer, animator and voice actor. He was an episode writer for both Thomas & Friends and Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go. He also worked as a consultant for writing Bruno.

As well as a writer, Michael also has a passion for railway modelling and animation.

Series 22

 * An Engine of Many Colours
 * Hunt the Truck

Series 23

 * Free the Roads
 * Heart of Gold
 * Out of Site
 * Deep Trouble

Series 24

 * The Great Little Railway Show
 * Thomas and the Royal Engine

Series 1

 * Nia's Surprising Surprise

Series 1

 * Celebrate

Trivia

 * Before joining Thomas, Michael is known on social media and the Sodor Island Forums as WhitehouseFilms.
 * According to a livestream in 2023, Michael's favourite episode from those he has done for the show is 'One that has yet to be written'.
 * Both he and Andrew Brenner worked on the series Pablo since 2016, where Michael wrote 13 episodes and voiced the character ' Tang' and a variety of other characters in the series.
 * His favourite characters are Edward and Toby.
 * One of Michael's favourite television series is Postman Pat (partially the first and second series and the four specials by Woodland Animations). In 2021, he made a tribute video on YouTube to Postman Pat when the show was celebrating 40 years.
 * His favourite series is Series 2 and his favourite episode is Thomas Comes to Breakfast.
 * As a modeller, he created replicas of Wilbert Awdry's original model engines and his Ffarquhar layouts. He attempted to build a replica of the North Western Region layout with a local model railway club, but the project was dropped in 2022.
 * He also created four replica versions of the original wooden engine toy of Thomas using the same methods and materials made by the Rev. W. Awdry. The second version was made as a thank you gift to Christopher Awdry, the third version was made for Daniel Coffey and the fourth made for Sam Wilkinson.
 * Michael is the first writer to have written episodes for both Thomas & Friends and Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go.