Biography

Over his career, Mark Farrell has produced, directed, and written in all formats and genres, focusing on comedy, music, biography and social consciousness. His credits include over a dozen feature films and hundreds of hours of television including the producing of the pilot of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" for HBO, "Off the Record" with Bono and the Edge and Ring Starr for HBO, producing and directing "Ben Stiller's Comedy Roundtable" with Ben Stiller, Jim Carrey, Chris Rock and Bill Hader for Epix, two seasons of "Z-Rock," a single camera sitcom for IFC, and two seasons of the Nick Cannon Show for Nickelodeon.

Farrell also executive and post produced 11 A&E Bios including Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Aniston, Green Day and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has recently added theater directing to his portfolio with four productions to date. He was also the head of Comedy Development at the Oxygen network. Most recently, Farrell is writing and directing a documentary, writing a play, writing a screenplay, and hiking as much as possible before the production season hits in earnest.

Farrell's family background gives him a fourth-generation comedy lineage. His great-grandparents were vaudevillians, his grandmother, Glenda Farrell, was a feature and Broadway actress known for her comedic characters, and his father, Tommy Farrell, was a stand-up comic and comedy writer who wrote for the likes of Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Red Skelton and Lucy Ball.

Farrell's career as a producer started in commercials (McDonalds, Ford, the Olympics, etc.) and switched over to music (Black Crowes, Diana Ross, Jackson Browne, David Lee Roth, Barbra Streisand, Tom Petty, Chris Isaak, etc.) and comedy (Howie Mandel, Dave Chapelle, Ellen DeGeneres, Jack Black, Patton Oswald, Patrice O'Neal, Joan Rivers, Eddie Griffin, Paul Mooney, etc., etc, etc.). He was on the team that created the Screen Actors Guild Awards and produced a number of series and specials for Comedy Central, HBO, NBC, Fox, Showtime, VH1, and more, winning Cable Ace awards for "The A List" with Richard Lewis and "Coming Home" with Jackson Browne.

On the social consciousness side, he produced and directed pieces for Dr. Jane Goodall, Pathways to Peace, an NGO at the UN, Indigenous Peoples Day, and various fundraisers and benefit productions for causes as time allows.
- IMDb mini biography by: Mark Farrell