Credits: Senior Vice President, Tyler Perry Studios | Producer, SISTAS, TYLER PERRY’S ASSISTED LIVING

MARK E. SWINTON is a film, television, and theater writer, producer, and director. He currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Scripted Programming for Tyler Perry Studios, overseeing the production of all major television shows, feature films, and stage plays. Additionally, Swinton is the creator and executive producer for BET’s The Michael Blackson and the upcoming urban drama , RT. 187. Swinton is also an executive producer, writer, and director of Caught Up, also on BET+.

Swinton produces a number of television shows that are currently on the air, including The Oval and SISTAS on BET, the cult favorite Ruthless on BET, BRUH on BET+, and Young Dylan on Nickelodeon. He also serves as an Executive Producer, Writer, and Director on the situation comedies House Of Payne and Assisted Living, both on BET. Previously, Swinton worked as a writer on ABC’s animated sitcom The Proud Family and UPN’s Second Time Around.

His notable producer credits on feature films include Nobody’s Fool with Whoopi Goldberg and Tiffany Haddish, Acrimony with Taraji P Henson, and Boo 2, which starred Tyler Perry and became the number one film in America at the time of its release. Swinton also produced A Fall From Grace and the studio’s newest release Madea Homecoming, which recently premiered on Netflix.

Swinton earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the highly acclaimed Newhouse School at Syracuse University, where he studied television and film with a double major in creative writing and directing. He pursued graduate studies in film at National University.

An accomplished playwright and stage director, Swinton’s urban musical U Dont Know Me was nominated for seven NAACP theater awards, winning four. He received the 2002 NAACP Theater Award For Best Director and the 2002 NAACP Theater Award for Best Playwright.

Swinton’s original works include Ephraim’s Song, Black Olive, Sugarbread Sweet, Keep Movin’ On, and the provocative stage play Autumn. As a theater educator, he founded the Stephen and Carrie Odell Theater Arts Academy and The Youth Arts Initiative in Los Angeles, where he developed curriculum for creative writing, film, and theater arts programs that attracted thousands of youth from all over greater Los Angeles. For his contributions, Swinton won the Teach For America Educator of the Year Award, the LAUSD Gold Star Award, and was nominated for the National Disney Teacher Award five years in a row.