Michael R. Perry is an American television producer, television writer and screenwriter. He is a graduate of Thomas Worthington High School and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

His television credits include Eerie, Indiana, New York Undercover, American Gothic, The Practice, Millennium, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (including the episode "Limitations" for which he won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series), FreakyLinks, The Guardian, The Dead Zone, House M.D., Persons Unknown, The River (a series he co-created) and NYPD Blue for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.

As a screenwriter he wrote the film The Voices[2] and co-wrote the film Paranormal Activity 2.[3]