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.
In 1992, 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 in 1994 at The American Stage and
performed again in 1996 at the Nebraska Rep. It was selected as one of
the best new comedies of 1994 by the New Jersey Star Ledger and in
1997 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. A short film
based on the play and directed by Haris is currently running on ifilm.com.
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 collaborated with Teresa
O’Neil on Rebound, a sitcom pilot for Paramount Pictures and CBS.
Recently, he wrote "Fraidy Cat" for Disney Feature Animation as well as
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 last June. Kane's Wrath, the expansion to the best-selling
Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars, is slated to be released in Spring
2008. Haris is currently writing Red Alert 3 for EALA and a new game for
Ubisoft and Techland. His feature script, Other People’s Wishes, is in
development with Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow Productions.