Mark was chosen by
Dame Judi Dench for the Patricia Rothermere Award (Evening Standard
Awards) which allowed him to study acting for three years at Webber Douglas
Academy of Dramatic Art, having already done English & Drama at Birmingham
University.
Since graduating from
drama school, Mark has done almost every type of acting possible from
Shakespeare to Sitcom, live Radio to Physical Theatre (with Frantic Assembly),
corporate videos, commercials, audio books, soap opera (EastEnders) and a dozen
World or British Premieres of new plays both in the West End and around the
country, for example Harold Pinter’s The Dwarfs at the Tricycle Theatre
(also on BBC4), Cuckoos directed by Peter Hall at The Barbican, David Copperfield at the
West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Danny Crowe Show at the Bush, Cressida
(with Michael Gambon) at the Albery, Holding Fire at the Globe and so on.
Musically, Mark has
sung in productions as diverse as the Merchant of Venice at
Shakespeare’s Globe, The Entertainer at Liverpool Playhouse,
impersonated Liza Minelli in The Kindness of Strangers at the Liverpool
Everyman, and played George Harrison in a film about the Beatles.In addition to guitar, Mark has also played
trumpet, tenor horn, piano, ukelele and recorder on stage!
Mark is often asked
to do development work on plays and films and has worked with scores of new writers at theatres such as The Royal Court, The National Theatre Studio, and Colleges - University of Westminster, The National Film and Television School, City University, Birmingham University. He has also been involved in new musicals
Tin Pan Alley, and the Lord of the Rings Musical, in which he
helped create the character of Gollum.
Mark was recently seen in the new series of Hotel Babylon and New Tricks on BBC1 and in the BBC's World War II drama Landgirls.
