MARK JONES
Comedy performer/actor/singer in numerous pantomimes and musical tours all over the UK and played the lead role in two world tours of 70s musical “Boogie Nights”.
Mark has been involved in performing and producing in professional theatre and entertainment for over 20 years.
As a performer he travelled the world in various shows for Qdos Entertainment, playing lead roles in several major tours alongside Shane Richie, Nigel Havers and David Essex to name but a few. He has also toured the UK as the presenter of both ‘The Sooty Show’ and ‘Rainbow Live!’ both featuring iconic UK children’s TV characters. In recent years Mark has been working on exciting future projects for Sooty, including a full-length Sooty feature film!
He finds himself most busy in his performance work these days as a stand-up comedian and presenter of live events. He particularly enjoys performing his children’s stand-up comedy shows, as these bring him in contact with the most brutal and merciless audiences he has ever faced!
Mark has spent the last eight years combining a very successful performing career with the more ‘behind the scenes’ roles of writing, directing and producing shows for theatre as well
As well as working with Sooty, Basil Brush and the cast of Rainbow in the past, Mark has more recently written concepts and scripts for various interactive activities for the much-loved Entertainment One characters Peppa Pig and Ben & Holly. He is also the Creative Associate on the current UK tour of “Peppa Pig’s Big Surprise”. Since 2009 Mark has written, directed and produced over 500 shows for most of the major holiday and leisure resorts and theme parks around the world and provides voices for more than twenty different characters.
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