Oliver Thornton is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer who has worked with stations like WTVS, WFUM and WKAR—as well as independent production companies like HKO Media and Metrocom International—to produce a range of projects from local commericals to full-length documentaries. He is currently the Series Producer of "Get Up! Get Out!" on WTVS and his projects in development include a dramatic anthology series for Detroit Public Television. He was the principal writer, producer and director on the Emmy-nominated "Michigan Football Memories" and has written and produced two Emmy Award-winning short form documentaries for local public television. He graduated from the Screen Arts and Cultures program in 2000 and was the recipient of a Hopwood Award and the Gayle Morris Sweetland Fellowship in screenwriting while a student there.