Mike Makowsky

Mike Makowsky (born May 9, 1991) is an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote the true crime dramedy film Bad Education, which premiered on HBO in 2020. He has also written the films Take Me and I Think We're Alone Now. Early life and career Makowsky was born in Bayside, New York, and raised in the Long Island suburb of Roslyn. In 2004, while he was in the seventh grade at the Roslyn Union Free School District, school superintendent Dr. Frank Tassone and various administrative colleagues were arrested in what would become the largest public school embezzlement in American history. Makowsky graduated from Roslyn High School and Brown University, then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as screenwriter. His first feature film credit was the independent dark comedy Take Me, which was produced by the Duplass brothers and distributed by Netflix. He then wrote and produced his second film, I Think We're Alone Now, which was helmed by Reed Morano and starred Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning. The film screened at Sundance Film Festival in 2018.