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A native of Los Angeles, Mike Werb earned his undergraduate degrees at Stanford, exploring various fields. He initially applied his expensive education by joining a New Wave garage band that never made it out of the garage. Shifting to writing, he embarked on a steady ascent through Hollywood by enrolling in UCLA's Master's program in screenwriting. Since then, he has worked with every major studio.
Mike's breakthrough came with the screenplay for the Jim Carrey comedy "The Mask," but he also values his other produced works, including "Darkman 3: Die, Darkman, Die!" and the giant-rats-on-a-college-campus thriller "Gnaw: The Food of the Gods, Part 2."
Together with Michael Colleary, Mike co-wrote and co-produced the action thriller "Face/Off," directed by John Woo and starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The New York Times praised the Oscar-nominated film as "one of the 1,000 greatest movies of all time," and "Face/Off" won the Best Screenplay award at the 1997 Saturn Awards.
In the 21st century, Mike was one of six credited screenwriters on "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," starring Angelina Jolie, and worked on the WB's flashy but short-lived TV series "Tarzan," featuring Travis Fimmel. Werb and Colleary also collaborated closely with Arnold Schwarzenegger on "Collateral Damage," his final major film before becoming Governor of California.
Recent projects include the well-received animated feature "Curious George" (Universal/Imagine) and the family comedy "Firehouse Dog" (New Regency/Fox). Werb and Colleary are currently developing "Prophets of the Ghost Ants" with author Clark Carlton, producer Lawrence Bender/A Band Apart, and director Conrad Vernon ("Monsters vs. Aliens").
Mike also wrote the nano-tech action pilot "Flyswatters" for the SyFy Channel and is set to executive produce it with Darren Star ("Sex and the City") if it goes into production.
He is presently working on "Unnatural History," a live-action adventure series for Warner Horizon and Cartoon Network.
Mike is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Writers Guild of America, and serves on the nominating committee of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
