Mark McDevitt is an award-winning writer and screenwriter with over 20 years’ experience working in both film and television production. In 2015, his spec screenplay Ida Tarbell was voted onto The Hollywood Blacklist, and was subsequently acquired by Amazon Studios for development as a feature film. In 2010, he adapted The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur for the big screen. It is currently in pre-production as an independent film.

While honing his craft as a writer, Mark worked for many years as a camera assistant and operator based in New York. Working alongside such notable directors as Spike Lee, Ridley Scott, Sam Raimi and Steven Spielberg, he received a masterclass in filmmaking from some of the best in the business. Since then, he has written, produced, shot and edited a wide range of video projects including artist profiles, music videos, PSAs and business promos.

Mark’s written work has appeared in the New York Times, The Sunday Independent, The Examiner, Giant Magazine, Body+ Soul and many others. He is included in the New York Times “best of” Modern Love anthology published in 2007 by Three Rivers Press. He has written over a dozen feature-length screenplays, and more than a few TV pilots and treatments. In 2007, he was a finalist for the Disney Fellowship in writing, and is a three-time semifinalist for the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting awarded every year by AMPAS. Together with his wife, he is the co-author of the book Painting With Scissors. They live in Fair Haven, New Jersey, with their two young sons.