 | Mark Valenti has written, edited or produced more than 200 hours of family friendly content for television, projects that are seen daily around the world. He wrote the Christmas movie Like Father, Like Santa for the Family Channel, The Christmas Pageant for the Hallmark Channel and the annual Christmas special, Mannheim Steamroller’s Christmas Angel for NBC. As Head Writer for Nickelodeon’s LazyTown, he co-wrote the popular Christmas episode “Surprise Santa” and the holiday single, “I Love Christmas.” Mark has written for Back to the Future, Olivia, Gaspard and Lisa, Totally Spies, Julius Jr., Treehouse Detectives, and My Friends Tigger and Pooh. On the network executive side, he was Story Editor for Nickelodeon’s animated shows including Rugrats, Catdog, Hey Arnold, Rocket Power, and The Wild Thornberrys. Mark also wrote the television movies Menno’s Mind for Showtime, and several film projects for Lifetime. Mark was Creative Manager for a team tasked with re-imagining Disney’s California Adventures theme park in Anaheim. He also served as Creative Manager for Disney Interactive. Prior to his writing career, Mark was Vice President of Development for John Hughes Entertainment, during the production period of Home Alone, Uncle Buck, Christmas Vacation, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
He has authored several books: The Hannibal Twist - A Tom and Huck Mystery, The Wolf and the Warlander, an adventure trilogy, and a coming-of-age comedy, Last Night at the Monarch Motel. Mark began his career as a Production Associate for Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, followed by several years as Script Analyst for Ron Howard, Oprah Winfrey and Sydney Pollack’s production companies. |
