Tina Mabry
Director, Writer, Producer

DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs and an NAACP Image Award for The Supremes at Earl’s All You-Can-Eat (Hulu) and Melody 1963: Love Has to Win (Amazon).

Tina Mabry (She/Her)

Tina Mabary (Director, Writer, Producer) A native of Tupelo, Mississippi, Tina Mabry graduated from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts with an MFA in Film Production. A true hyphenate, Mabry is an award-winning writer, director, and producer for television and film. She was a co-producer, writer, and director for USA’s hit drama Queen of the South. Mabry was also a producer, writer, and director on OWN’s Queen Sugar created by Ava DuVernay. Mabry’s vast episodic directing credits include Insecure (HBO), Dear White People (Netflix), Pose (FX), Grand Army (Netflix), Women of the Movement (ABC), Power (STARZ), the Beast Mode pilot (Macro/TNT), and The Politician (Netflix).

Mabry began her career co-writing the feature screenplay Itty Bitty Titty Committee directed by Jamie Babbit. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007 and won Best Feature Narrative at South by Southwest Film and Music Festival. Mabry went on to write and direct the groundbreaking feature film Mississippi Damned. While playing on the festival circuit, Mississippi Damned garnered an impressive thirteen awards from participation in fifteen film festivals including awards for Best Feature Film and Best Screenplay at the Chicago International Film Festival (2009). The film premiered on Showtime Networks in 2011.

Mabry’s accolades include a DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs and an NAACP Image Award for The Supremes at Earl’s All You-Can-Eat (Hulu) and Melody 1963: Love Has to Win (Amazon). Out Magazine listed her as one of the most inspirational and outstanding people of the year (2009), Filmmaker Magazine named Mabry among the “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” the Advocate magazine featured her in their list of “Top Forty Under 40”, and with over 300 nominees and only 50 selected artists, United States Artists named Mabry the James Baldwin Fellow in Media (2010). In addition to winning the Creative Promise Award of Tribeca All Access, Mabry has participated in several talent development programs including the Fox Writers Intensive, Sundance’s Screenwriters Intensive, and in a plethora of Film Independent’s Artist Development programs (Project: Involve, Directors Lab, Writers Lab, Fast Track) where Mississippi Damned was awarded the Kodak Film Grant. She was also in the inaugural class for Women in Film’s ReFrame Rise initiative (2019), highlighting her commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion in the industry. 

Mabry penned a significant rewrite for George Tillman Jr.’s feature film The Hate U Give, based on the best-selling novel written by Angie Thomas. Mabry most recently directed and co-wrote the New York Times' Best Seller book adaptation of The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (Searchlight Pictures) starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Sanaa Lathan, and Uzo Aduba, which is streaming now on Hulu & Disney+.