A native of Michigan, Mark has a BFA in Musical-Theater from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. His father, a psychologist, his mother, an elementary school teacher, his oldest sister, a psychologist/lawyer and his other sister a pediatrician. Interestingly enough, Mark has played many schoolteachers, psychologists, doctors and lawyers in his professional career. While in New York Mark worked primarily in theater and daytime television. Currently living in Los Angeles, he works almost exclusively in film and nighttime television. Two of his many passions are playing music and writing songs.