As a teen, Mark spent Summers creating Super-8, stop-motion animation, which resulted in him catching the filmmaking bug. His obsession with 70’s disaster movies cemented his desire to pursue film as a career.

His interest in the peripheral drew him to punk, then performance and a stint in a heavy-metal drag band in San Francisco. 

Studying filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago followed and his first short film, Get Happy or The Night Judy Garland Started A Riot, screened in film festivals around the world from Montreal to New York, Glasgow and Tokyo. 

After college, Mark taught English in Japan, started a company creating promotional videos for small businesses, and for the last 17 years has studied screenwriting, where his work has earned him accolades from 2023 WritersXwriters Winner, 2023 Stowe Story Labs Diverse Voices Finalist, 2023 Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Finalist, ISA's 2022 Fast Track Fellowship Top 50 and Genre Winner, 2023 Atlanta Film Festival Semifinalist, Cinestory TV Retreat 2021 and 2022, Stage 32 Diversity Springboard, Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship, Series Fest Storytellers Initiative and WeScreenplay's Diverse Voices screenwriting contests. Mark was also a finalist in the 2021 Austin Film Festival Virtual Pitch Competition and winner of the 2021 ISA Virtual Pitch Challenge.

Mark is constantly exploring new stories to tell, whether based on personal experience, inspired by books or emerging from rarely seen elements of queer culture. His work focuses on the underdog, the misunderstood, the maligned, heroes who refuse to allow others to strip them of their identity, passion or pride. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Mark is encouraged by continually emerging queer representation in the media.