Corey May

Corey May
Born	United States
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation	Screenwriter, producer
Years active	2002–present

Corey May is the co-founder and President of Sekretagent Productions, a production company based in Los Angeles, California working in the film, video game, and internet industries. May is the main writer of the Assassin's Creed series. May worked as the lead writer on Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed II, and Assassin's Creed III. Corey May also helped Jeffrey Yohalem as a writer on Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, and Darby McDevitt on Assassin's Creed: Revelations. May helped Jeffrey Yohalem once again on Assassin's Creed Syndicate, making it the last game he worked on before departing from Ubisoft. May also helps in the production of most other entries into the Assassin's Creed franchise to make sure everything flows together into one coherent narrative.

May graduated from Harvard University in 1999 and founded Sekretagent with Dooma Wendschuh upon their graduation from the University of Southern California's Peter Stark Producing Program in 2001.

Along with Dooma Wendschuh, May has co-written for video games such as Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, Army of Two and Terminator Salvation. He also was an executive producer on the 2006 horror film The Plague, was a producer on the 2002 film Yo, Tyrone.

He and Wendschuh wrote the recently released Batman video game developed by Warner Bros. Games Montreal, Batman: Arkham Origins,^[1] a prequel to Rocksteady Studios Batman video games: Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City.

Video Gameography

Year	Title	Credited as		Notes
		Writer	Producer
2002	Yo, Tyrone		Yes	Short film
2004	Prince of Persia: Warrior Within	Yes
2005	Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones	Yes
	Battles of Prince of Persia	Yes
	Stolen	Yes
2006	The Plague	Yes		Direct-to-video
2007	Assassin's Creed	Yes
2008	Army of Two	Yes
2009	Terminator Salvation	Yes
	Assassin's Creed II	Yes
2010	Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood	Yes		Story
2011	Assassin's Creed: Revelations	Yes		Story
2011	Happy Feet Two: Erik's Adventure	Yes		App
2012	Assassin's Creed III	Yes
	Cartoon Universe	Yes		Online Game
	Inversion	Yes
2013	Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag	Yes		Story
	Batman: Arkham Origins	Yes

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Award category	Title of work	Result
2010	British Academy Video Games Awards	Best Story (shared with Joshua Rubin and Jeffrey Yohalem)	Assassin's Creed II	Nominated
	Writers Guild of America Award	Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing (shared with Joshua Rubin and Jeffrey Yohalem)		Nominated
2011		Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing (shared with Jeffrey Yohalem and Patrice Désilets)	Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood	Won
2014		Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing (shared with Dooma Wendschuh and Ryan Galletta)	Batman: Arkham Origins	Nominated

References

1. Hanson, Ben (April 17, 2013). "The Storyline of Batman: Arkham Origins". Game Informer. GameStop. Archived from the original on April 17, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2013.

External links

• Corey May at the Internet Movie Database