MIKE ZARA

LOS ANGELES • PACIFIC TIME

SKILLS
TREATMENT WRITING
SCRIPT WRITING
COPYEDITING

GENRES
 Comedy
FASHION
FILM+TV
Food+Bev
Youth Culture

Mike is a writer/director passionate about telling poppy, character-driven stories that are female and queer-focused. He works in various genres, including drama, animation, horror, procedural, musical, and YA. He has developed original drama TV pilots, IT’S A MYSTERY for The CW and KILL THE LIGHTS for YouTube Originals. In addition, his horror-comedy Hallmark Christmas parody, LETTERS TO SATAN CLAUS, aired on SYFY.

Mike was a writer on CRIME FARM, produced by Nicole Kidman, and the final three seasons of TNT’s hit series MAJOR CRIMES. He also co-created the unauthorized musical parody of TEEN WITCH at The Groundlings and co-writes pop songs with music producer Mark Byers (RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE). His musical horror short POSSESSED competed at the Dances With Films Fest in 2022.

As a director, Mike just wrapped his feature debut of the meta horror comedy, HORRIFIED, starring Busy Philipps, Ron Perlman, Julie Benz, Doug Jones, and Jim Rash. He also wrote and produced the film.

View Mike's writing samples

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  • "Thanks Mike, you killed it."

  • “hi Mike! You did a ton of great work in a short amount of time. We really like what you did. Thanks for working on this with us today and we look forward to doing it again with you!”

  • “LOVE it!! Thanks Mike!!”

  • "Great work. Thanks Mike for the thinking and the organization. It makes a difference."

  • “Thank you so much Mike, really appreciate it man”

  • “Thanks rockstar! You did it again!”

  • “Mike, I put comments on the side of the treatment, did strikethru’s on a few specific words, but basically you’re ON FIRE.”

  • “hi Mike - These are all great! Fantastic work again. Thanks for doing this. Looking forward to the next one.”