Mark Kirkland

Profile

Mark Kirkland has won three Primetime Emmys and two Peabody awards as a director on The Simpsons and is a filmmaker and educator. He is an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and he has served as a Governor for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. As an independent filmmaker, Kirkland has written, directed, and produced award-winning short films which have been shown at film festivals around the world and screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As a photographer, Kirkland created photo essays of behind-the-scenes making of The Simpsons which have been published in Us and People magazines.

Kirkland received a BFA degree from California Institute of the Arts in 1978. He is also a fine arts painter who lives in Burbank California with his wife Leticia “Letty” Kirkland.