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Tina Mabry

  • Program

    B.A. in Political Science and Psychology ('00) ( College of Liberal Arts )

  • Hometown

    Tupelo, MS (South)

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    Tina Mabry earned her B.A. in Political Science and Psychology in 2000. She has built a successful career in the Los Angeles TV industry as a Producer, Writer, and Director.
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After graduation from UM, Tina Mabry attended the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts and earned an MFA in Film Production in 2005. She has built a successful career in the entertainment industry that includes positions as writer, producer, and director for such industry leaders as Netflix, FX, Disney, Searchlight Pictures, 21st Century Fox, MGM Starz, Adult Swim, ABC Television, HBO, Amazon, Warner Horizon Television, and Sony Pictures.  For nearly 12 years she was CEO of Morgan's Mark, an independent production company and editing facility. Mabry is currently a Writer with Too Many Black Girls for Ley Line Entertainment. 

Meet this award-winning alum in the entertainment industry

 

Mabry began her career co-writing the feature screenplay Itty Bitty Titty Committee directed by Jamie Babbit. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007 and won Best Feature Narrative at the South by Southwest Film and Music Festival. She wrote and directed her first feature film, Mississippi Damned, which garnered an impressive 13 awards in 15 film festivals including Best Feature Film and Best Screenplay at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2009. The film premiered on Showtime Networks in February 2011. She was chosen as one of "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in Filmmaker Magazine’s July 2009 issue.

Recognized by Out Magazine as one of the most inspirational and outstanding people of the year, Mabry was featured in the Advocate magazine as part of their Top 40 Under 40 feature of individuals raising the bar in their respective fields. In 2010, she was named the James Baldwin Fello in Media by United States Artists.

Her feature script, Country Line, was accepted into FIND's Screenwriters Lab and won the Creative Promise Award of Tribeca All Access in 2011. Mabry then participated in the Fox Writers Intensive in 2012, a highly selective writer’s initiative. She has participated in several talent development programs including Film Independent's Writers' Lab, Tribeca Film Institute's All Access, and Sundance's Screenwriters Intensive. In February 2013, Mabry was a fellow in the Sundance Institute's Screenwriters Intensive. Tina recently directed another film for the FUTURESTATES program, ANT, starring Guillermo Diaz (Scandal, Half Baked).

Mabry is a writer and producer for Fox’s upcoming series, Proven Innocent. She co-produced, wrote, and directed the second season of USA's hit drama Queen of The South. Mabry produced, wrote, and directed Own's Queen Sugar created by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey. She produced and directed Melody 1963:Love Hast To Win, an American Girl special for Amazon Kids that earned her a DGA Award and an NAACP Award. Her other television directing credits include Netflix's Dear White People, ABC's The Mayor, HBO's Insecure, FX's Pose, Adult Swim's Black Jesus, STARZ's Power, TNT's Untitled Marsha Blackstone Project, Netflix's Grand Army, Netflix's The Politician, Disney's Women of the Movement, FX's Pose, and Searchlight Picture's The Supremes at Earl's All You-Can-Eat.

Listen to Mabrys interview on the Creative Breakthrough podcast where she discusses "How to Turn Rejection Into Success."