Michael Tabb 

is a working screenwriter, fifteen-year current-and-active member of the WGA (the Writers Guild of America, West is the Hollywood screenwriters’ labor union), a multiple-award-winning screenwriting educator and speaker, and in the summer of 2024, director of the feature film Winter Breaks, based on his award-winning "Best Screenplay", currently in post-production.

He’s agile enough to write horror for UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, family for DISNEY FEATURE ANIMATION, a period war epic for a production company at WARNER BROTHERS, and has worked with creative icons, cutting his teeth working with creative icons.

Michael's has written two produced screenplays for Universal Studios, Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (a reimagining of the Wolfman franchise) and The Car: Road to Revenge (a remake of the 1977 film). Prior to that, he was brought in work on Ring Around the Rosie, released by Sony.

Tabb is the co-founder and co-creator of the WGA's Mentor Program in Los Angeles. 

Recently, Michael wrote the television pilot Capitol for Paragon Releasing. He has also developed projects with Hivemind and the creative team whose credits include The Expanse, The Witcher, Snake Eyes, Charlie’s Angels, The Huntsman, Disney’s Beauty & The Beast, Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, TV’s Flash and Arrow.

Michael has also developed feature films for Imagine Entertainment, Mandeville Films, Intrepid Pictures, Paradox Studios, Mystery Road Films, and The Canton Company at Warner Brothers. He has collaborated with producers Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Hacksaw Ridge) Branko Lustig (Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator,  Schindler's List), Paul Schiff (Rushmore, My Cousin Vinnie, Young Guns), Sean Daniel (The Mummy franchise, Tombstone, The Witcher), writer/director Jonathan Hensleigh (The Punisher, Kill The Irishman, Ice Road  and screenwriter on Armageddon), Director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire), and Academy-Award-winner Dustin Hoffman to name a few.  

Tabb served as a script analyst for Alcon Entertainment, known for The Blind Side, Blade Runner 2049, The Book of Eli, and Insomnia with put deal at Warner Brothers. 

Michael has taught screenwriting for Full Sail University’s Creative Writing MFA program, Nashville Film Institute, EEI Creative Arts: School of Film & Entertainment, and MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Company).  He serves on the WGA’s Writer’s Education Committee, formally served on the New Members’ Committee, and has assisted the Writers’ Guild Foundation Community Outreach Program by guest instructing on his craft to underprivileged youth in Los Angeles.  

As a mentor, Tabb served alumni of his alma mater, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the Missouri Film Office’s Missouri Stories Scriptwriting Fellowship. He has also lectured on screenwriting at The Screenwriters World Conference, StoryExpo in Los Angeles and New York City (including opening keynote speaker honors for gurus Robert McKee, Christopher Vogler, John Truby), the Next Generation of Visual Storytellers Conference, Florida State University, UCLA, and USC.

Michael Tabb’s book, Prewriting Your Screenplay: A Step-By-Step Guide To Generating Stories, is published by Routledge, America’s #1 textbook publisher.