Michael Tabb
Feature Film Director, Film Festival Award-Winning WGA Screenwriter for 20-Years, and Multi-Role, Multi-Award Nominated SAG-AFTRA Actor. Co-Creator of the WGA\'s Mentor Program.
- Role
- Sag Aftra Actor at SAG-AFTRA
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Michael Tabb
- https://mtabb.mykajabi.com/sag-aftra-actor Michael Tabb recently wrapped production (2024) on the feature film WINTER BREAKS as its writer/director, is a nearly two-decade-long active member of the Writers Guild of America, West (the Hollywood film and television screenwriters union). He has developed projects for Universal Studios, Disney Feature Animation, Paradox Studios, Intrepid Pictures, The Canton Company at Warner Brothers, Producers Paul Schiff, Sean Daniel, Lawrence Bender, adapting and writing for comic book icon Stan Lee, Director Mike Newell and Dustin Hoffman to name a few. He won the New Mexico International Film Festival screenplay contest for his original script A MISFITS\' CHRISTMAS, a project currently seeking financing.Michael originated a monthly column about his writing POV entitled “Script Notes,” picked up by Script Magazine and expanded into a book available at https://amzn.to/2HOMVFg. As a way of giving back, Michael has lectured and served on panels about the entertainment writing industry for institutions, including: the Writers Guild of America, west, Comic-Con International in San Diego, Comikaze, Screenwriters World Conference, UCLA, USC, NYU, Florida State University, Columbia College, and Full Sail University. His education includes USC undergrad, a B.F.A. from New York University\'s Tisch School of the Arts, and graduated the Post-Grad UCLA School of Film and Television\'s Professionals Program in Screenwriting. Michael did the final rewrite of a thriller which landed its star and was released by Sony, making the top twenty list of highest grossing indie renters of its year as well as writing franchise remakes and sequels for Universal Studios. Michael served as Supervising Producer on several productions for the original-content, online-network served as Strike.TV’s co-founder and Head of Submissions.Specialties: I\'ve made a living writing and adapting projects for the big screen in many genres including: action, adventure, dramas, children\'s tales, psychological thrillers, and historical pieces.
Experience
Sag Aftra Actor
Jan 2017 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US
UPDATE: Michael has now been nominated once again for Best Actor in 2020 and 2021 against feature-film movie stars for his performance in another short film, HONOR AMONG THIEVES, playing the moody leader of a gang of outlaws in the American Wild West.Steven Spielberg Taft-Hartleyed Michael to kick off his character-acting career. He started with small roles on DAYS OF OUR LIVES, was nominated for BEST ACTOR in 2017\'s Alhambra Film Festival for his role of a victim of child abuse all grown up and working as a bowling alley attendant in STRIKE. In early 2019, Michael played a Hollywood writer/producer who turns out to be a blood drinking Satanic cultist in THE TEROT, a World War II story where he\'s imprisoned in an American internment camp for being German in CRYSTAL CITY, and played the antagonist and leader of bandit outlaws in the sci-fi/western HONOR AMONG THIEVES starring Jason R. Moore (series regular, Marvel\'s The Punisher), directed by multiple film-festival-winning writer and director, Justin Eugene Evans (A LONELY PLACE FOR DYING). https://mtabb.mykajabi.com/sag-aftra-actor Please feel free to forward it to any casting directors or talent reps. Thank you!
Education
New York University
B.F.A., Tisch School of the Arts
1992 — 1994
UCLA
School of Film and Television (screenwriting)
1994 — 1996
University of Southern California
Arts
1990 — 1992
Skills
- Script
- Screenwriting
- Film
- Entertainment
- Feature Films
- Storytelling
- Motion Pictures
- Television
- Writing
- Creative Writing
- New Media
- Action
- Final Draft
- Production
- Scripting
- Producing
- Theatre
- Books
- Film Production
- Screenwriter
- Short Films
- Comedy
- Animation
- Editing
- Creative Direction
- Directing
- Video Production
- Media Production
- Post Production
- Documentaries
- Commercials
- Independent Film
- Reality
- Music Videos
- Voice Over
- Screenplays
- Casting
- Video
- Pre-Production
- Acting
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