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born 1970 United States

Mara Brock Akil (born May 27, 1970) is an American television writer and producer. She began her screenwriting career at age 23 on South Central (1994) on Fox.

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Technology has changed our industry, and I think that's opened up different revenue streams and ways to make money and distribute television. It's made the global conversation easier, quicker.

For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.

I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mara Brock Akil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.