Haris OrkinDeveloper BIO
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 1989 he collaborated on
That’s My Hat, a play produced by the First Stage Theater Ensemble of Los Angeles. In 1990,
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 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. 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, Disney Feature Animation, and Paramount. His original screenplay,
A Saintly Switch was produced for ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney. It was directed by Peter Bogdanovich and tarred David Alan Grier and Viveca Fox.
He 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 2008. Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 was also released in 2008 and was nominated for a Writer's Guild of America Award. Call of Juarez 2: Bound in Blood will arrive in summer 2009. Haris is currently writing a new game for Techland
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Games CreditedCall of Juarez: Bound in Blood (2009), Ubisoft Entertainment SA
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising (2009), Electronic Arts, Inc.
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath (2008), Electronic Arts, Inc.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (2008), Electronic Arts, Inc.
Call of Juarez (2006), Ubisoft Entertainment SA
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard (2005), Atari, Inc.
