Tom Abrams is a tenured Professor of Cinematic Arts in the John Wells Division of Writing for Film and Television at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. For the last 30 years, he has taught filmmaking internationally and consulted on projects in more than 20 countries around the world. As a professional writer, Tom’s work has been recognized in both the United States and Europe, including an Academy Award Nomination, an Emmy Award, and prizes at the Berlin, Cannes, Montreal and Karlovy, Vary Film Festivals, among others. Tom has written for Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema, Sony, and Universal Pictures. His most recently produced films are the family comedy, Totally Boss (2023), the WWII spy thriller O2:Dawn of War (2020), the horror film, Nails (2017), and the historical drama The Eternal Road (2017). Tom was also the supervising story consultant on The Painted Bird, which was short listed for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2020 Academy Awards. Tom’s latest writing project is The Last Train from Prague (2023), an historical English-language mini-series to be produced and directed by Michael Bay. Tom was a founding tutor for ‘North By Northwest‘, the acclaimed European film development workshop (1995-2005), and Co-Head of Studies for ‘ScriptEast ‘, (2006–2022) a development workshop for projects from Eastern and Central Europe that resulted in more than 50 produced films. He was also a co-founder of the screenwriting program at Shanghai Tech University in China and has conducted seminars for Riot Games in Los Angeles.