Harry Werksman was born Pittsburgh and grew up in Palm Springs before leaving to attend St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island.
He is member of Pi Sigma Alpha, National Honorary Political Science Society, was awarded a Special Political Science Departmental Certificate in international relations and his honors thesis examined the historical roots of emerging capitalist economic systems in the sixteenth century.
After moving back to the United States, he shifted his focus away from academics working for Winner/Wagner & Associates, specializing in crisis management communications, and with Winner Wagner & Mandabach during the successful 1992 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday campaign in Arizona where he developed speaker's kits and trained spokespeople.
His credits include: Eon-4, Star Trek: DS9, V.I.P., Earth: Final Conflict, Farscape, The Invisible Man, Deathlands: Homeward Bound, Veritas: The Quest, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Moonlight, Final Fantasy XV and Castle.
He has sold four original one-hour pilots - one of which was chosen by the Writers Guild of America as one of the best pilots in its 5th Annual Unproduced Television Scripts competition – and also taught screenwriting at both the American Film Institute's MFA Program, UCLA Extension – Writer's Program, New York Film Academy (Los Angeles) and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.