Mark has been executive director of The Grand since December 2014, after serving as managing director
for eight years prior. The Grand operates three nonprofit performing venues on Wilmington’s Market
Street with more than 200,000 square feet of program space between them.

Previous to his tenure at The Grand, Mark served as executive director of the South Jersey Performing Arts
Center in Camden and the Glassboro Center for the Arts at Rowan University.

Holding a B.A. in Communications (DePauw University) and M.A. in Public Relations (Rowan University),
he has worked in the nonprofit performing arts in executive and marketing positions since 1981 in
Michigan, Indiana, New Mexico, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

A resident of Delaware since 2006, Mark also serves on the boards of the Rodney Square Conservancy,
Downtown Visions, and the Arts Consortium of Delaware. Mark was one of the founders of the IN
Wilmington Arts Marketing Campaign and has served as its board chair twice. He also co-founded the
Delaware Arts Alliance, the state’s arts advocacy organization. Mark was named one of the Most Influential
Delawareans by the News Journal in January 2021.

As a side avocation, Mark has been the film critic for Out & About Magazine since 2008, and prior to that,
wrote movie reviews and features for Arts Insight, Hot Potato, The DePauw, and WIAN-FM Public Radio.
He was an adjunct professor of film history at Rowan University from 1998 to 2019.

A native of Indiana, Mark has two young adult children, and now lives in Trolley Square with his partner
Wendy. He is an avid bicyclist, hiker, traveler, puzzler solver, gardener, and hobbyist beekeeper (with three
hives on the roof of The Grand). Mark is proud of having spent the fastest 22 minutes of his life as an
unsuccessful contestant on Jeopardy.