Mark is a writer and director for theatre and screen. He was Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse from 2013-16 and Associate Artist there until 2020. He was Associate at the National Theatre Studio from 2011 to 2013. He founded Dumbfounded Theatre in 2001. 

Theatre includes: Missing People [co-director] (New National Theater, Tokyo/Kani Public Arts Theater, Gifu & Leeds Playhouse); Fruit Trilogy (Lucille Lortel Theater, New York); Animal Wisdom [co-director] (Bushwick Starr Theater, New York); Waiting For Godot (Tobacco Factory & Tour); De Profundis (Classic Spring Company at the Vaudeville Theatre, London & Edinburgh Festival); The Country (Gorch Brothers/DDD Aoyama Cross Theater, Tokyo); Villette, Richard III, Avocado, Uncle Vanya, Fruit Trilogy, Untold Stories, Of Mice and Men (Leeds Playhouse); Stuart: A Life Backwards (Hightide/Sheffield Theatres); Wild Oats (Bristol Old Vic); Moonlight and Magnolias (Watermill); Henry VIII, Holding Fire! (Shakespeare’s Globe); Just Between Ourselves, A Passionate Woman (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Snake in the Grass (Matrix Theatre, L.A); Songs of the South, The Unknown Kurt Weill (ENO/Young Vic); The Leningrad Siege (Tron, UK Tour & Wilton’s Music Hall); The Taming of the Shrew (Thelma Holt Ltd/ Theatre Royal, Plymouth & National Tour); The Tempest (Cottesloe, National Theatre & Tour); The Circle (Oxford Stage Company/Salisbury Playhouse & two further national tours); The Dybbuk (BAC/JMK Young Director Award 1999); Professor Bernhardi (& Arcola/Oxford Stage Company/BBC Radio 4), CP Taylor’s Bread and Butter (& Southward/Scottish tour/Tricycle) (Dumbfounded).  

Film includes: Ganef [writer-director], Making Noise Quietly [co-writer], Cleopatra, Newborn [writer-director].