Prewriting Your Screenplay (PDF)

Michael Tabb has developed projects for and with Universal Studios, Disney Feature Animation, Intrepid Pictures, the Canton Company at Warner Brothers; producers Paul Schiff, Sean Daniel, and Lawrence Bender; directors Thor Freudenthal and Mike Newell; comic book icon Stan Lee; and actor Dustin Hoffman. A decadelong current and active WGAW member, Tabb serves on the WGAW Writer's Education Committee and co-created the union's first mentor program. Tabb has lectured at writers conferences from coast to coast and in classrooms at Florida State University, UCLA, and USC, having tested his story-development theories as a multiple award-winning MFA professor at Full Sail University.

With a love of giving back, Michael has spoken on entertainment writing for UCLA, NYU, USC, FSU, Columbia College of Chicago's Semester in L.A., Florida's and San Diego's Writers Conferences, Screenwriters' World Conference, Comic-Con International, film festivals, and his union, the Writers' Guild of America, West (WGA). Michael volunteered time to guest instruct inner-city youths for the Writers' Guild Foundation Community Outreach Program and serves on the WGAW's Writer's Education Committee. He co-created and spearheaded the WGA Mentor Program from its inception for its New Members' Committee. Michael is a multiple award-winning, MFA screenwriting educator for Full Sail University. He was educated at USC, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and UCLA's School of Theater, Film & Television Professional Program in Screenwriting.