Mark has written the plays FREUD’S LAST SESSION (Off Broadway Alliance Award), CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM (Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award) FORGIVING TYPHOID MARY, (Time Magazine’s “Year’s Ten Best”) and BECOMING DR. RUTH, the story of Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Other plays include THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH, AMCHITKA, PUBLIC SPEAKING, ELEANOR, BEST OF ENEMIES, EARS ON A BEATLE, SCOTT AND HEM, RELATIVITY and OUT OF GAS ON LOVER’S LEAP. With Randy Courts, they have written the musicals GIFTS OF THE MAGI, JOHNNY PYE and JACK’S HOLIDAY. Mark has also written STAND BY YOUR MAN, The Tammy Wynette Musical, for the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. With John Markus he wrote THE FABULOUS LIPITONES.
Mark co-wrote the screenplay for Carroll Ballard’s Warner Brothers film, DUMA. He directed and co-produced the documentary, MY DOG, An Unconditional Love Story, featuring Richard Gere, Glenn Close and Billy Collins among others. Television credits include THE COSBY SHOW and Dick Wolf’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. He wrote the award winning children’s book THREE CUPS.
Mark is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writer’s Guild East and a Board Member of the Great Barrington Public Theater.