Mara Brock Akil
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 theatrical film Sparkle (2012). Together with her husband and collaborator Salim Akil, the creative duo founded Akil Productions in 2000. She founded Story27 with Netflix in 2021.
Brock Akil is the only African American showrunner or executive producer to have series on TV every year from 2000 to 2015, and the first to have two series and the only to have two black sitcoms concurrently on broadcast network TV during the 2000s. Her series were two of only three shows in 2007 and 2008 and was one of only two shows in 2009 with a predominantly Black cast on broadcast network TV.
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