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Hailing from Clearwater, Florida, Mark began his career as a teenager working live television at the Home Shopping Network and directing/producing several short films. While attending Saint Leo University, he played on the college basketball team.
After suffering a season-ending knee injury, Mark became more involved in the college theater program, eventually playing the role of Norman Bates in a stage production of "Psycho." He graduated from Saint Leo University in 2001 as the institution's first double major in Theater and Writing.
During his college years, Mark appeared in multiple national commercials from 2001 to 2004 and featured in several episodes of the A+E reality series "Storage Wars" in 2010.
In 2002, Mark produced and acted in the cult film "B-Movie: The Shooting of Farmhouse Massacre." He also produced and created "Homeland Security" (2003), "Night Demons" (2004), and "Hooligan's Valley" (2005), the latter of which was included in the horror anthology "Visions of Horror." Additionally, he directed and produced "Protocol: New Orleans" (2015).
Mark earned Florida’s highest accolade, the Crystal Reel Award, as producer and writer of "Night Demons."
He produced the feature-length vampire film "Live Evil" (2009), starring genre icons Tim Thomerson and Ken Foree. "Live Evil" was released by Warner Brothers and on Netflix in November 2009, followed by an international release in 2010.
Between 2012 and 2017, Mark divided his time between Los Angeles and New Orleans. His acting credits include the drama "Sticky Notes" (2016) with Rose Leslie and Ray Liotta, the series "Preacher" (2017), the WWE Studios film "Blood Brother" (2018), and the series "Good Morning Antioch" (2012-2016). In April 2022, he published his first children’s book and audiobook, "Kyle the Coyote: Lost in the Desert."
Mark’s feature-length directorial debut, "Samurai Priest Vampire Hunter," is scheduled for release in late 2022.
