Screenwriter and Actor. Mark has worked as a Hollywood reader and journalist for several national newspapers in the UK.  Mark attended the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and graduated from the two-year acting course.  My dad was a journalist and managed to get banned by the racist Apartheid regime in South Africa - we escaped to America and I spent part of my childhood in New York and the East Coast.  When I'm not writing I mentor students at UEA (The University of East Anglia). I also help out by photographing events at KITS (Kids in the Spotlight) - a charity to help foster kids by training them to write, cast, and star in their own short films. Recent highlights include:   Recommend (3) or "Strong Consider" (1) from Script Reader Pro on my four completed screenplays. A "Recommend" from Barb Doyon at Extreme Screenwriting. I had two scripts in the VPF Top 20 most requested scripts of 2022: https://www.virtualpitchfest.com/the-vpf-20/