Biography
MARK MARABELLA is an Emmy® nominated executive producer and founder of Marabella Productions. For 25 years, he has developed, funded, sold, written, produced, and directed more than 300 hours of comedy, concerts, talk shows, documentary specials and non-fiction series for VH1, Discovery, I.D., Science, History, National Geographic, MSNBC, HLN, Travel, PBS and HBO Max. In 2009, Mark also helped launch heritageradionetwork, an on-line podcast network composed of more than two-dozen shows. While there, he co-hosted the Q-Report. Mark is also a long-time member of the Producers Guild of America having served as National Board Member, Delegate for the Producers Council, Vice Chairman of PGA East and Chairman of its Documentary and Non-Fiction Committee.
In 2015, after writing, producing, and directing the series DO NOT DISTURB for Investigation Discovery with award-winning executive producer Joel Schumacher, Mark completed 5 episode scripts for MAKING OF THE MOB: Chicago for Stephen David Entertainment that premiered on AMC. He returned with a new series that he developed and sold to ID with Stephen David, THE INTERROGATOR featuring preeminent homicide detective Fil Waters, which premiered in 2020.
Prior to founding Marabella Productions, Mark was the show runner and writer of 60 hours of Discovery's top-rated prime-time true crime procedural series THE FBI FILES for three and half seasons. Through his storytelling, the award-winning series became number one on Discovery two years running, remaining among Discovery's top-rated shows of all time. Those episodes were also key to the launch of Discovery's, I.D. The series can now also be streamed on Netflix and Amazon.
Originally from Buffalo, New York, Mark began his television career at VH1 working on comedies, talk shows, and music documentaries many of which were nominated for Cable Ace Awards. He went on to become Director of Production and Development for the award winning, independent television and documentary company Globalvision, where he supervised many investigative human rights programs for PBS, the last titled GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS hosted by award winning journalist and civil rights pioneer, Charlayne Hunter-Gault. The one-hour documentary won top honors at the World Film Fest in Houston. His work has been broadcast internationally in over 120 countries. Mark has also written for numerous independent newspapers and magazines, and worked closely with top literary and talent agents in New York City.
