MARK MARABELLA is an Emmy® nominated writer / producer and founder of Marabella Productions. He has more than 15 years of experience developing, writing, producing, and directing over 90 documentary specials and series for The Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic Channel and PBS.

Mark is also a long-time active member of the Producers Guild of America serving as its Vice Chairman, as well as co-chair of its Documentary Committee in New York.

Since launching in 2003, his company has produced more than two dozen hours of limited series and documentary programming with a special focus on science, history, and current affairs. In 2004, the company’s award winning one-hour documentary on the space shuttle Columbia accident, COMING HOME FROM SPACE: The Challenge of Reentry, earned a News and Documentary Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Science, Technology, and Nature Programming. As a follow-up, Discovery commissioned the company to produce RETURN TO FLIGHT, a three-hour mini series that follows NASA engineers and astronauts as they prepare for the first space shuttle launch since the tragedy. In May of 2007, BASE CAMP MOON premiered as the first episode in Discovery Science Channel’s highly touted Space Week and won a Cine Golden Eagle. Shortly following, Marabella Productions co-produced AMERICA’S LOST H- BOMB with Discovery— the story of a U.S. nuke lost in the shoals of Tybee Island Georgia and still missing since 1958. Their latest series, CARBOT, premiered on The Science Channel in July 2008. Currently, the company is producing three major specials for National Geographic Channel. Marabella Productions is headquartered in New York City.

Prior to founding Marabella Productions, Mark was the series producer and writer of 60 hours of The Discovery Channel's top-rated prime-time forensics 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, most recently anchoring the launch of Discovery’s new channel, INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY. Based on the series' success, Mark was then tapped to co-develop and launch production on CRITICAL RESCUE, a prime-time Discovery Channel series featuring stories of advanced rescue teams and emergency medicine premiering in the spring of 2003.

Originally from New York, Mark began his television career more than 15 years earlier 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 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 100 countries. Mark has also written for numerous independent newspapers and magazines, and worked closely with top literary and talent agents in New York City. He is married and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with his wife.