Biography

Mark Labella is a Cebu-born, San Diego-raised, award-winning screenwriter and actor, a veteran Hospital Corpsman of the United States Navy, and graduated with a doctorate in Medicine. He received his first screenwriting training at the WGA Veteran's screenwriting program and has produced, and written, multiple projects including the Chicago Screenplay Award-Winning "MisDiagnosed" medical comedy series, the murder-mystery thriller "Catholic School", and the comedy series "Soul & Spice". As an actor, he's appeared in features "The Plane" with Gerard Butler, television shows "NCIS:LA," "Magnum P.I.," "Chicago Fire," Disney's "Doogie Kamealoha," and more.

His passion for storytelling at a young age, when he received the library's student of the month award at St. Columba because of his passion for books and poetry, and confusing many of his peers. He also began at a young age leading to a school musical at the age of 7 despite his parents, being in the medical industry, who did not encourage such a career.

With his full array of experiences as an MD, as a first-generation immigrant, Mark Labella chooses to tell stories that promote perspectives rarely seen in Hollywood. He has seen the poorest of the poor, the most incredulous of medical emergencies, and the most gruesome of sides of humanity, and he aims to focus his career as a screenwriter and producer on stories that show heart, and humanity.

Mark Labella boasts the record of being the ONLY sailor in the history of the United States Navy to have his very Asian mother show up at her only son's barracks because he did not answer his phone for two days.

He uses such experiences growing up with his beautifully-strange Filipina mother in his writing, his array of adventures from his U.S. Navy days providing care for Marines and Sailors to his misadventures as a doctor that include delivering babies in the middle of the street during an earthquake.

And though he has a medical doctorate, he gave his mother another reason to pop yet another blood vessel by quitting medicine for the much more stable and highly dependable work that is screenwriting and Hollywood.

Today, he Hamilton-writes like he's running out of time, not simply because writing has always been his first love, and he's been writing since he can remember. But he fights to succeed and give back to my aging mother, who, despite her quirks, worked hard selling chewing gum and comic books in the streets of Cebu while going to nursing school to provide him a great life in America.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tina Lastimosa