Intro:
Mark is a freelance Dance Teacher, Workshop Leader, Movement Director Choreographer & Director.
He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Deaf Men Dancing & DMD+.

Mark was nominated as Best Choreographer in the Off-West End Awards and Broadway World UK Awards for Ace of Clubs, Call Me Madam, Iolanthe and Hedwig & The Angry Inch. He was also nominated for Live Theatre & British Theatre Awards for The Who’s Tommy and The Last Five Years.

Mark is a recipient of The MGCfutures Bursary which will help him take a new direction as a theatre director.

Training:

The Royal Ballet School and London Studio Centre

Theatre:

• Falling in Love (Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin)

• The Color Purple (Curve Leicester/Birmingham Hippodrome/UK Tour)

• D-Sign Dance (Birmingham 2022 Festival/Arts Outburst/Black Country Dance Hub)

• The Last Five Years (Wales Millennium Centre)

• The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Agency (Belgrade Theatre)

• Iolanthe (Wilton’s Music Hall/UK Tour)

• The Threepenny Opera (UK Tour)

• Shoes (Sadler’s Wells)

• The Rhythmics (Southwark Playhouse)

• Hear! Hear!, Sense of Freedom, Let Us Tell You. A Story, Time, Corazon a Corazon, Ten, Embrace and Alive! (Deaf Men Dancing)

• Orfeo Ed Euridice (Longborough Festival);

• Duckie (Le Gateau Chocolat, Southbank Centre/Battersea Arts Centre/HOME Manchester)

• Money Makes the World Go Round and Echoes in the Night (Carnival UK/3 Pins Productions)

• As You Like It (Oxford Shakespeare Company)

• Die Feldermaus (Den Norske Opera & Ballet)

• Blood Wedding (Dundee Rep Ensemble)

• 101 Dalmations, Noah, The Meeting, A Marvelous Year For Plums and The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Chichester Festival Theatre)

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (National Youth Music Theatre)

• Reasons to be Cheerful (Graeae Theatre Company)

• The Who’s Tommy (Ramps on the Moon UK Tour)

• Hedwig & the Angry Inch (Leeds Playhouse/HOME Manchester)

• The Little Big Things (Sohoplace, London)
   

Workshops:

• National English Ballet Theatre (Choreography Lab 2017)

• Crush – The Musical (Big Broad Productions);

• Isolation in the Dark - Seeds Commission (Mercury Theatre)

• Medusa (MettaTheatre); Integrated ChoreoLab (Pavillion South West/GDance/South East Dance, presented at the Intergrated Dance Summit) and Hut 8 – The Alan Turing Research & Development Project (Mark Smith Productions)

Television:

• My Silent World (commissioned by Ballet Boyz, a short film for CH4 Random Acts)

• Channel 4’s The Paralympic Homecoming (DMD+) and

• The Paralympic Opening Ceremony (London 2012 - Channel 4)

Performing Art College Productions:

• Cre8 (Bird College)

• Carousel (Royal Academy of Music)

• Marry Me a Little, Peter Pan, Just So & Starting Here, Starting Now (Chichester University)

• Spelling Bee (Arts Educational College)

• Cabaret & Legally Blonde (Mountview)

• No One in the World  (London School of Musical Theatre)

• Twelfth Night (Guildford School of Acting)

• The Witches of Eastwick (Institute of the Arts Barcelona)

• Hair (Musical Theatre Academy)