Michael Colleary

Michael Colleary is an American film producer, screenwriter and television writer. His writing credits include Face/Off,^[1] Firehouse Dog, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and the Cartoon Network live-action series Unnatural History.

Michael Colleary
Born	Montclair, New Jersey
Occupation(s)	Film producer, screenwriter, television writer
Years active	1988–present

He is a frequent collaborator with Mike Werb, whom Colleary met at UCLA after Werb had sold his car to cover tuition and Colleary had given him lifts in his car.^[2] Together they won a Saturn Award for their original screenplay of Face/Off.^[3]

Colleary is the writer-showrunner of the independently financed, action-adventure TV series, Professionals, starring Tom Welling, Brendan Fraser, and Elena Anaya, which currently airs on the CW network.

Colleary was born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey.^[4] The son of comedy writer Robert M. Colleary, he graduated in 1978 from Montclair High School.^[2] He attended Temple University and studied journalism there, before heading west to do graduate work in screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.^[2]

He is married to screenwriter Shannon Bradley-Colleary, whose film To the Stars premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019.