American screenwriter and television producer (born 1970)
Mara Brock Akil
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Akil in 2013
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Born
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1970-05-27
)
May 27, 1970
(age 53)
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Alma mater
| Northwestern University
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Occupation(s)
| Screenwriter, producer
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Years active
| 1993?present
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Spouse
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Children
| 2
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Mara Brock Akil
(born May 27, 1970) is an American television producer, screenwriter and director. She became the youngest
African American
female
showrunner
and
executive producer
when she created the sitcom
Girlfriends
(2000?2008), airing on
UPN
and
The CW
, and the first African American female showrunner to have two series simultaneously on
broadcast network
television when she created its spin-off
The Game
(2006?15) on The CW before moving to
BET
.
She created BET's first drama series
Being Mary Jane
(2013?19) and
The Game
sequel
(2021?22) on
Paramount+
. She co-created
Love Is
(2018) on
OWN
and executive produced the DC
Arrowverse
series
Black Lightning
(2018?21) on The CW. She was a writer on
South Central
(1994) on
Fox
and a writer and producer on
Moesha
(1996?99) on UPN,
The Jamie Foxx Show
(1999?2000) on
The WB
,
Cougar Town
(2010) on
ABC
and the theatrical film
Sparkle
(2012). Together with her husband and collaborator
Salim Akil
, the creative duo founded production company Akil Productions in 2000.
Brock Akil is the only African American showrunner to have series on broadcast network TV every year of the 2000s, and was the first to have two series and was the only to have two
black sitcoms
simultaneously that decade. She is the only African American showrunner or executive producer to have series on television almost every year of the 2000s and 2010s with the exception of 2016. Her series were two of the only three shows in 2007 and 2008 and was one of the only two shows in 2009 with a predominantly
black cast
on broadcast network TV.
[1]
Early life and education
[
edit
]
She was born Mara Brock in 1970 in
Compton
,
California
,
[2]
to Joan Carol Fullmore and William Bartido Brock II (later Wali Shamsuddin) who were
high school sweethearts
. Her brother William "Bill" Brock III was three years old at the time and their younger sister
Kara Brock
was born four years later. Her paternal grandmother was Candida Brock, her maternal grandfather was Johnn Fullmore and her maternal grandmother is Helen Fullmore.
[3]
[4]
Mara lived her early childhood in
Baldwin Hills
in
South Los Angeles
,
[5]
[6]
and lived her preteen and teenage years in and around
Kansas City
,
Missouri
,
[7]
after her parents divorced when she was eight years old in 1977.
[8]
[3]
Her mother left with the children and moved to the
Kansas City metropolitan area
where she worked her way up from an entry-level position to a computer programmer at
Marion Laboratories
while raising Mara and her siblings as a single mother.
[8]
At
age 11
, Mara saw a 17-year-old
Whitney Houston
as a
cover model
on the November 1981 issue of
Seventeen
magazine, three years before she even
became a popstar
, which gave Mara hope that "things are possible."
[9]
She graduated in 1988 from
Raytown South High School
where she decided she would pursue a career in writing. She opted against going to the
University of Missouri
like many of her classmates and applied to only one college,
Northwestern University
in
Evanston, Illinois
in the
Chicago metropolitan area
, hoping to attend the
Medill School of Journalism
. She was accepted and went on to join the
Delta Sigma Theta sorority
.
[10]
[11]
In her freshmen year she volunteered to help some friends in the campus' black
sketch comedy
group Out Da Box. When a member encouraged her to write a sketch, she initially resisted before writing a parody of
Mike Tyson
and
Robin Givens
' marriage. "The first laugh was a high I will never forget," she later recounted. She took two courses with professor Njoki McElroy in 'Performance of African-American Literature' that focused on directing and performing. Mara performed in two theatrical productions for her, including playing the lead in
The Colored Museum
. She had a college internship at the
Grand Rapids Press
in
Michigan
that changed her approach to storytelling; "I was thinking I got this story, and you realized very quickly that your stories did not matter. I remember the amount of hustle it took just to get a couple stories on. So, my senior year I decided 'I'm going to tell the truth through fiction.'"
[12]
[13]
She tried out for the job of an
MTV VJ
when an open audition was held on campus in February 1991.
[14]
She made her decision to work in the television industry after meeting professor Delle Chatman at an 'Organization of Black Screenwriters' seminar and went on to petition her to get into her screenwriting course.
[13]
[15]
She graduated in 1992 and applied for Hollywood writing apprenticeships but never received any. She worked for a year as an assistant manager at a
Gap
clothing store before deciding to move to
Los Angeles
.
[16]
[17]
Career
[
edit
]
1993?2000
[
edit
]
In 1993, she performed as an actor in a minor speaking role in the feature film
With Honors
(1994) in a scene shot in Chicago. After moving to Los Angeles, she met NU almnus and assistant director
Jerry Ziesmer
who told her to "put my last two films on your resume" which helped her get a job as a
production assistant
for $180 a week on
The Sinbad Show
. The
sitcom
aired for one season spanning 24 episodes from September 16, 1993 to April 21, 1994 on
Fox
before being cancelled.
[15]
[18]
In 1994, while working on the show she knew that its executive producers
Ralph Farquhar
and
Michael J. Weithorn
were developing a
TV pilot
, so she began writing scripts she hoped for them to read. Once she got a minute of Farquhar's time, she told him: "Let me not waste it on why I need you. That's obvious. Let me spend it on why you need me." She was given the position of a
WGA
Writer's Trainee on the forthcoming series
South Central
. The
comedy drama
, which centered on a divorcee single mother Joan Mosley and her three children, aired for one season spanning 10 episodes from April 5 to June 7, 1994 on Fox.
[9]
[18]
[19]
After an 18-month unemployment period, she began working on
Moesha
, starring
Brandy Norwood
, a sitcom created by Farquhar,
Vida Spears
and
Sara Finney-Johnson
. It aired for six seasons spanning 127 episodes from January 23, 1996 to May 14, 2001, becoming the biggest hit on the fledgling
UPN
. She served as a writer on the first four seasons and as a producer on the fourth season which ended in August 23, 1999. Brock Akil recounts of her experience working for Farquhar: "I really appreciate the way he ran
Moesha
and that he gave access to us and taught us how to [...] not just write script, but how do you produce that [...] I wanted to learn from him. He learned from
Garry Marshall
, and so all that legacy is within me."
[9]
[19]
Brock Akil next worked on
The Jamie Foxx Show
, a sitcom created by its namesake and
Bentley Kyle Evans
, which aired for five seasons spanning 100 episodes from August 28, 1996 to January 14, 2001 on
The WB
. She served as a supervising producer and writer on the fourth and fifth seasons where her episodes aired between September 24, 1999 and October 29, 2000.
2000?2009
[
edit
]
In 2000, Brock Akil created
Girlfriends
after she went to UPN and sold her idea for the series.
[20]
She shopped the series around to studios to start the filming process but, even though the show sold to a major network, no studio wanted to take project. She struck a deal with
Kelsey Grammer
, and his involvement with
Paramount Pictures
was able to sign on as an executive producer for the show.
[21]
Girlfriends
premiered on September 11, 2000, and became a part of UPN's Monday night prime time lineup. Chronicling the life of Joan Clayton, played by
Tracee Ellis Ross
, and her three friends, the show ran for eight seasons, lasting through the production switch from UPN and the launch of
The CW
network. The show's two-part series finale aired on the CW on February 11, 2008.
She also created and executive produced a spin-off to
Girlfriends
,
The Game
,
along with her husband Salim Akil.
[22]
[9]
In 2009, Brock Akil became a consulting producer and writer for the ABC suburban sitcom
Cougar Town
.
[23]
Following the launch of the CW network, Brock Akil created a spin-off series to her first show that follows the life of Joan's cousin,
Melanie Barnett
, played by
Tia Mowry
. She places her dreams of being a doctor on hold and moves to San Diego to be a supportive backbone to her boyfriend, professional football player Derwin Davis, played by
Pooch Hall
. The series ran on the CW network for three seasons until its abrupt ending in 2009. The show was canceled for about two years until it was picked up by
BET
and began production in Atlanta.
The Game
brought in 7.7 million viewers in its Season 4 premiere on BET.
[24]
After adding six more seasons to the series, the network released a statement on its website stating that the show would conclude after production of the seventh and eighth seasons.
2009?2020
[
edit
]
She is the creator of
BET
's
Being Mary Jane
, starring
Gabrielle Union
premiered July 2, 2013, and became the couple's first hour-long scripted show. The show chronicles the life of Mary Jane Paul, a successful news anchor, and attempts to address the statistic that within the black community 42 percent of successful women will never marry.
[11]
In March 2017, Brock Akil left
ICM Partners
to join
Creative Artists Agency
(CAA).
[25]
The Akils created and executive produced a scripted superhero series,
Black Lightning
, based on
DC Comics
'
Black Lightning
series.
[26]
The show premiered on January 16, 2018.
[27]
[28]
2020?present
[
edit
]
On January 7, 2020, it was announced that Brock Akil had signed a script deal with
Fox Entertainment
to develop a series for the Fox broadcast network.
[29]
On September 9, it was announced that she had signed a multi-year overall deal with
Netflix
to produce new content.
[30]
On September 27, 2021, she announced the launch of her new production company Story27 under her Netflix deal and the titles of three series and one documentary being developed.
[31]
Personal life
[
edit
]
Brock Akil is a fan of the
Kansas City Chiefs
team in the
NFL
.
[8]
She loves to
journal
, especially before bedtime.
[32]
Along with friends
Gina Prince-Bythewood
,
Sara Finney-Johnson
and
Felicia D. Henderson
, she endows The Four Sisters Scholarship.
[33]
Family and religion
[
edit
]
She is married to
Salim Akil
who is also a producer, director and screenwriter. Their first encounter was in 1997 at Insomnia Cafe on
Beverly Boulevard
?where Mara often spent time writing?when Salim was visiting Los Angeles from the
Bay Area
while finishing work on his debut film
Drylongso
that he co-wrote. Their second encounter was in 1998 at a furniture shop on
Melrose Avenue
, by which point Salim had moved to LA to attend
Columbia College Hollywood
. They began dating before getting married in April 1999.
[34]
[35]
[36]
She had her first pregnancy in 2004 but may have suffered a
miscarriage
.
[15]
The couple have two children together: Yasin Ali Akil (born 2007) and Nasir Lukmon Akil (born 2009). Salim has an older daughter and an older son from before his marriage and is a grandfather.
[9]
She and her husband are
Sufi
Muslims
.
[8]
[37]
Mara Brock had been born into a Muslim household that followed the
Nation of Islam
. After her divorcee mother Joan Fullmore left California with her children and relocated to Missouri, they practiced Christianity?at first following the
United Methodist Church
, attending
Emanuel Cleaver
's congregation, and later following the
African Methodist Episcopal Church
. Mara Brock reverted to Islam at some point before or during her relationship with Salim Akil.
[8]
In their semi-autobiographical TV series
Love Is
, the character of Nuri is depicted as being a non-practicing Muslim at the time she began dating Yasir, a practicing Muslim.
[38]
Mara Brock Akil is one of six siblings. She has two full-siblings, William Brock III and sister Kara Bustos, and has three
half-siblings
through her father Wali Shamsuddin: Saiid Shamsuddin, Shamsie Shamsuddin and half-sister Chi'Mere Banks. Her brothers Shamsie and William are
deceased
, the latter in September 2020.
[3]
Legal issues
[
edit
]
In 2006, Staci Robinson filed a $40 million lawsuit against Brock Akil and The CW, accusing Brock Akil of stealing the concept of her TV series
The Game
from Robinson's then-unpublished novel
Interceptions
from when she allegedly showed it to her in 2001. Robinson argued she had thought of the show first because her novel chronicles the life of Stefanie Porter, a senior studying law at
UCLA
, who ceases her hopes of becoming a lawyer to support the dreams of her boyfriend, star football player
Ricky Powers
.
[39]
The Akils created
Love is
,
which was based on their relationship, but was canceled after a woman accused Salim of domestic violence in an alleged extramarital affair, as well as copyright infringement by using her screenplay as the basis for the series.
[40]
[41]
A statement made by Akil's lawyers denied all allegations.
[42]
[43]
Filmography
[
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]
Film
[
edit
]
Television
[
edit
]
Year
|
Title
|
Creator
|
Producer
|
Writer
|
Director
|
Notes
|
1993?1994
|
The Sinbad Show
|
|
|
|
|
Production assistant
Also actress: "
Keep the Faith
"
|
1994
|
South Central
|
|
|
Yes
|
|
|
1996?1999
|
Moesha
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Producer: 22 episodes
Writing: 9 episodes
Also story editor: 9 episodes
|
1999?2000
|
The Jamie Foxx Show
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Supervising producer: 24 episodes
Executive producer: 1 episode
Writer: 4 episodes
|
2000?2008
|
Girlfriends
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
|
2006?2015
|
The Game
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Director: "
Dust in the Wind
"
|
2009
|
Leading Women
|
|
|
|
|
Documentary
Self: Episode 2
|
2010
|
Cougar Town
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Consulting producer: 22 episodes
Writer: 2 episodes
|
2013?2019
|
Being Mary Jane
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
|
2015
|
Reed Between the Lines
|
|
Yes
|
|
|
Executive producer: 3 episodes
|
2018
|
Love Is
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Director: 2 episodes
|
2018?2021
|
Black Lightning
|
|
Yes
|
|
|
|
2020
|
Make It Work!
|
|
|
|
|
Television special; Self
|
2021
|
History of the Sitcom
|
|
|
|
|
Documentary
Self: 3 episodes
|
2021?2022
|
The Game
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
|
|
2023
|
See It Loud: The History of Black Television
|
|
|
|
|
Documentary
Self: 3 episodes
|
Awards and nominations
[
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]
Award
|
Date
|
Category
|
Nominee
|
Result
|
BET Comedy
Awards
|
September 28, 2004
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
|
Nominated
|
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
|
Nominated
|
September 27, 2005
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
|
Nominated
|
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
|
Won
|
Black Reel
Awards
|
February 7, 2013
|
Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted
|
Sparkle
|
Nominated
|
February 13, 2014
|
Outstanding Screenplay (Original or Adapted), TV Movie or Mini-Series
|
Being Mary Jane
|
Nominated
|
February 23, 2018
|
Outstanding Drama Series
(shared with Salim Akil, Greg Berlantir, Adam Giaudrone, Sarah Schechter, Jennifer Lence, Carl Ogawa, Melora Rivera, Joanie L. Woehler, Bonnie Weis)
|
Black Lightning
|
Nominated
|
NAACP Image
Awards
|
March 3, 2002
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
|
Nominated
|
March 8, 2003
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
|
Nominated
|
March 6, 2004
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
|
Nominated
|
March 19, 2005
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
|
Nominated
|
February 26, 2006
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
|
Nominated
|
March 2, 2007
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
|
Nominated
|
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
(For "After the Storm")
|
Nominated
|
February 14, 2008
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
Girlfriends
|
Nominated
|
February 12, 2009
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
The Game
|
Nominated
|
February 17, 2012
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
The Game
|
Nominated
|
February 1, 2013
|
Outstanding Comedy Series
|
The Game
|
Nominated
|
February 17, 2012
|
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
(shared with Salim Akil)
|
The Game
(For "Parachutes...Beach Chairs")
|
Won
|
February 22, 2014
|
Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series
|
The Game
(For "Blueprint Part 1" and "Blueprint Part 2")
|
Nominated
|
February 6, 2015
|
Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series
|
Being Mary Jane
(For "Uber Love")
|
Nominated
|
February 5, 2016
|
Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series
(shared with Jameal Turner, Keli Golf)
|
Being Mary Jane
|
Nominated
|
NAMIC Vision
Awards
|
April 15, 2009
|
Comedy
|
The Game
|
Nominated
|
April 24, 2012
|
Comedy
|
The Game
|
Nominated
|
July 11, 2013
|
Comedy
|
The Game
|
Nominated
|
SHINE Awards
|
October 26, 1999
|
Comedy Episode
|
Moesha
(For "Birth Control")
|
Won
|
October 24, 2001
|
Comedy Episode
|
Girlfriends
(For "The Burning Vagina Monologues")
|
Won
|
October 18, 2003
|
Comedy Episode
|
Girlfriends
(For "The Pact")
|
Nominated
|
Series Storyline
|
Girlfriends
(For "AIDS Documentary")
|
Nominated
|
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- Attica Locke
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