MARK BLUM
Broadway: Twelve Angry Men, Lost in Yonkers, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, A Thousand Clowns, The Graduate, My Thing of Love, The Merchant. Off-Broadway: The Singing Forest, Mourning Becomes Electra, Buffalo Gal, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Waverly Gallery, The Music Teacher, The Seagull, Key Exchange, Table Settings, Say Goodnight Gracie, Little Footsteps, It’s Only a Play, Mislansky Zilinsky, Gus and Al, for which he received an Obie Award. Film: Shattered Glass, Desperately Seeking Susan (as Gary Glass, the Spa King), Crocodile Dundee, The Presido, Blind Date, Just Between Friends, Worth Winning, Miami Rhapsody. On TV, he has appeared in the movies “The Indictment,” “The McMartin Trial,” “Steve Martin’s The Judge,” and “The Defenders,” as well as guest starring roles in “Law and Order,” “Fringe,” “The Sopranos,” “CSI Miami,” “Judging Amy,” “NYPD Blue,” “St. Elsewhere,” “Miami Vice,” “Frasier,” “Wings,” “Roseanne,” “The Practice,” and many others. He holds an MFA in Acting from The University of Minnesota, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, has studied at HB Studios and with Andre Gregory. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Acting program at Brooklyn College where he teaches Contemporary Scene Study and Intensive Scene Study of the works of Chekhov, Ibsen, and Shaw. He is also currently on the Acting Faculty at HB Studios, and has taught at The University of California at Irvine, The Manhattan School of Music, The USDAN Summer Conservatory Program, The Lincoln Center Institute for Education, for the Manhattan Theater Club Educational Program, and privately. He has written plays and screenplays, produced feature films, and produced, directed and written for the Internet.