Mark was a staff writer and theater critic at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1998 to 2008, where he also wrote about dance, opera, dining, music and pop culture. He was a proud drama geek in high school and studied theater in college before turning his focus to journalism at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is on the board of the Press Club of Dallas, and is a member of the American Theater Critics Association. In 2003, he was selected for a fellowship at the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, for which he received a scholarship from the New York Times Foundation.

He co-founded TheaterJones in early 2009, and now serves as editor. He’s the senior stage editor and a writer for Arts+Culture Magazine, a TheaterJones media partner. He has written for the Dallas Observer, Dallas Morning News, FW Weeky, Auditoria and other publications. He is frequent contributor to the Star-Telegram, DFW.com, Dallas Voice and 360 West. He lives in Dallas.

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