After receiving a B.A. from Beloit College and an MFA in Creative Writing
from USC, Haris soon realized he had no discernible skills with which to
make a living. This despite being a finalist in the American Theater
Festival for his one act play, Armageddon. Advertising beckoned.
After several years writing and producing award winning radio and
television commercials, Haris sold his first screenplay. Save the Dog.
Which was later produced as a Disney Sunday Night movie.
Sex, Impotence, and International Terrorism was produced by L.A.’s
Renegade Theater Company and was chosen as a critic’s choice by the L.
A. Weekly. It was later sold as a film script to MGM/UA.
His play, Dada was produced at The American Stage and performed again
at the Nebraska Rep. It was selected as one of the best new comedies of
by the New Jersey Star Ledger and opened the Streisand Festival of New
Jewish Plays at the La Jolla Playhouse. Nobody Lives Forever has been
performed at The John Harmon Theater and The Player’s Club in New
York City.
Haris has written scripts for Universal, Columbia, Twentieth Century Fox,
Disney, and Paramount.
His original screenplay, A Saintly Switch was produced for ABC’s
Wonderful World of Disney. It was directed by Peter Bogdanovich and
starred David Alan Grier and Viveca Fox.
Haris wrote the script for Dragonshard, a PC game from Atari and Liquid
Entertainment. Call of Juarez, a game he wrote for Techland and Ubisoft
was released in 2007. Kane's Wrath, the expansion to the best-selling
Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars, was released in Spring 2008.
He contributed chapters to "Professional Techniques for Video Game
Writing" and "Writing for Video Game Genres", both sponsored by the
IDGA and published by AK Peters Ltd.
Red Alert 3 for EALA came out in late 2008 and Haris received a Writer's
Guild Award nomination for best video game script. Ubisoft and Techland
released Call of Juarez 2 in June 2009 to strong sales and excellent
reviews. His feature script, Other People’s Wishes, is in development with
Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow Productions.
Deep Silver and Techland released Dead Island in September 2011 and
the game stayed at the top of the sales charts for the next three weeks.
Haris is currently working DLC for Dead Island.