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Lecturer II
Phone: 734.936.2917 orthornt@umich.edu
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 PSA campaigns to full-length documentaries and series. He was the co-writer and co-producer of the Emmy Award-winning Think Squad series on Detroit Public Television and the documentary Blue Ice: The Story of Michigan Hockey broadcast on Fox Sports Net. He was a writer, producer and director on the Emmy-nominated Michigan Football Memories and has written and produced multiple Emmy Award-winning short-form public television documentaries. 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.
