Mark has the grand honour of putting the Great Dane on the cobbles - he was the one who named Chesney's dog, Schmeichel!Before taking up the Senior Storyliner role with Corrie in March 2009, Mark worked as a writer for Coronation Street Online where he wrote a couple of "webisodes" and as a scriptwriter for rival soaps Family Affairs and Hollyoaks (where he was also Story Consultant and Story Editor). And in 1999 he followed the Writer’s Shadow Scheme at EastEnders.
But that's not all. Back in 1998 he worked in Rwanda as a Soap Opera Consultant, managing a team and giving training in all aspects of drama serial-making including storylining, writing, script-editing, production, post-production and Online Broadcast production.
He's also an accomplished playwright having written the 1995 play A Murder of Crows, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre & Nottingham Playhouse Comedy Store, a National Theatre Studio production. And other presitigious work includes writing Goldmoor, a BBC drama serial and The Colcloughs, a BBC radio soap.And last, but by no means least, Mark is married to the actress who played Corrie's wonderful Yana Lumb.
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