He has performed all over the world in film and television as well as Off Broadway and in regional and children's theater. A graduate of Belmont University, he received additional training and study at the National Shakespeare Conservatory as well as Columbia and Oxford Universities and the Roundabout Theater’s Theatrical Teaching Institute. Mark's recognized in his home of Atlanta for his work with the Alliance Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare, Theatrical Outfit, Actors Express, Horizon Theatre, and Theatre Emory and in Tennessee with the Clarence Brown Company, Tennessee Repertory Theater, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival and his own company, Naked Stages.

Mark’s latest film and television credits range from the much-anticipated MLK biopic Selma (opening Christmas Day 2014) and the soon-to-be-released Nicholas Sparks’ adaptation of The Longest Ride to joining the second season cast of AMC’s critically acclaimed series TURN. His short film, The Important Things, co-written by Belmont University motion picture department chair Will Akers, won the coveted “Cut to the Chase” Award at the 2009 Eugene International Film Festival.

An educator of merit, Mark served on the faculties at Belmont University, the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, the Nashville Film Institute, the GA Shakespeare High School Conservatory, and as a guest lecturer and teaching artist at Vanderbilt University and the University of the South as well as with Tennessee Performing Arts Center Education. He served as the Director of Education at Theatrical Outfit but now works as a Teaching Artist for Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre’s Education department.

Twice, The Tennessean and the Nashville Scene honored Mark as the city’s Best Actor and Director (2000, 2008). He was awarded the Tennessee Arts Commission/Ingram Industries Individual Artist Fellowship for 1992 and the Tennessee Williams Fellowship for 2003 from the University of the South for his adaptation of Animal Farm. And over twenty thousand people throughout the Southeast have thrilled to his critically- and publicly-celebrated original solo performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol—a longtime Holiday favorite.

Mark is an avid reader and Internet surfer, but his friends prefer his cooking.