Council Biography

A Los Angeles native, Mike Werb attended Stanford, where he majored in one thing after another. He put his costly education to use by joining the New Wave band Girl on Top. No musical skills led to no airplay.

Turning to writing, he began a burlesque climb up the well-greased Hollywood ladder by entering the UCLA Master's program in screenwriting. He has since worked for every major studio.

Mike's big break was writing the screenplay for Jim Carrey's comedy The Mask, but he is also proud of his other produced credits, which include the direct-to-video classic Darkman 3: Die, Darkman, Die!, and his giant-rats-attack-a-college-campus epic Gnaw: The Food of the Gods, Part 2.

More recently, Mike co-wrote and co-produced the thriller Face/Off, starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. Face/Off was awarded the Best Screenplay of 1997 statuette at the 24^th annual Saturn Awards.

His current projects include production rewrites on the feature films Tomb Raider, starring Angelina Jolie, for Paramount, and Collateral Damage, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, for Warner Brothers. Both are set for release in summer 2001.

Mike is a member of the Writer's Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.