Mark Solomon is a Los Angeles based screenwriter and originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Film and TV production.
In 2021, Mark was selected to the inaugural cohort for Diverse Representation’s Black Entertainment Executive Pipeline Program, sponsored by Color of Change. The goal of the program is to increase the number of Black executives in the television and film industries and to close the racial gap at the C-suite level in Hollywood.
In 2020 Mark was a member of NYU’s Feature Screenplay Development Lab. In that lab, he wrote “Confederate Ghoul” a new screenplay that is currently a semifinalist for We Screenplay’s feature film contest and the Table Read my Screenplay contest.
Mark’s scripts “Deliver” and “Praise” were both semifinalists for the 2018 ScreenCraft Film Fund. “Praise” was also selected by Scriptd for a live reading in Los Angeles in 2019. Also in 2019, Mark’s script “Happily Deader After” was selected as a semifinalist in the Script Lab screenplay contest.
After film school, Mark spent ten years working in New York as a lighting technician. During that time he wrote, produced, and directed several short films. His films have screened at the New York International Film Festival, the New York Short Film Festival, the Lighthouse International Film Festival, and others.
Currently, Mark lives in Pasadena with his wife Nicole and their cat Fred.
