Mark Schenfisch is a theatre and voice over actor, and composer in the Advanced BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. With collaborator Kate Douglas, he presented an original 10-minute musical "Like Father, Like Daughter", in which a young girl tries to connect with her father despite the metaphysical distance between them.
He is currently collaborating with Sam Balzac and Allison Frasca. |
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Mark appeared in Cape Fear Regional Theatre's Murder for Two in Spring 2021, where he was overjoyed to bring live theatre to a live audience in an auto-body repair shop (big garage doors for ventilation and a roof for rain cover provides the perfect pandemic performance space!) His prior pandemic pasttimes included completing voice over sessions for Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS in a closet booth in his apartment, and refining his laundry and plant-watering schedules by syncing them to the same day.
Mark performed as Detective Marcus in Williamston Theatre's Summer 2017 production of Murder for Two. The production "crackled with energy" and broke the theatre's record for best-selling production across their 11-year existence! Mark and co-star Andrea Wollenberg packed an entertaining punch, claiming Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Musical in the Lansing State Journal's annual Thespie Awards.
In the winter of 2016, Mark and his co-star in Murder for Two at Fort Worth’s Stage West Theatre were lauded as "nothing short of amazing" by the Star-Telegram of Fort Worth.
Mark worked as an Associate Music Director on an immersive workshop of Kerrigan-Lowdermilk's The Bad Years in the summer of 2016. In addition to teaching and refreshing parts, he arranged one of the songs for accordion and melodica, and became the go-to accordionist for the production.
Being an avid musician as well as an actor, Mark is passionate about shows where actors play instruments such as Kinosian and Blair's Murder For Two as well as John Doyle's stagings of Sweeney Todd and Company. He hopes that such musicals, in addition to Hansard, Irglová and Walsh's Once, and Dave Malloy's ...Great Comet of 1812 will continue to pave the way for a new generation of shows in which instrumental aplomb becomes as integral as acting, singing, and dancing in making musical theatre a truly extraordinary experience.
Mark holds two bachelor's degrees from Michigan State University, a BFA in Acting and a BMUS in Music Composition. He was born and raised in Casper, Wyoming and is grateful for the strong arts presence it provided.
Mark performed as Detective Marcus in Williamston Theatre's Summer 2017 production of Murder for Two. The production "crackled with energy" and broke the theatre's record for best-selling production across their 11-year existence! Mark and co-star Andrea Wollenberg packed an entertaining punch, claiming Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Musical in the Lansing State Journal's annual Thespie Awards.
In the winter of 2016, Mark and his co-star in Murder for Two at Fort Worth’s Stage West Theatre were lauded as "nothing short of amazing" by the Star-Telegram of Fort Worth.
Mark worked as an Associate Music Director on an immersive workshop of Kerrigan-Lowdermilk's The Bad Years in the summer of 2016. In addition to teaching and refreshing parts, he arranged one of the songs for accordion and melodica, and became the go-to accordionist for the production.
Being an avid musician as well as an actor, Mark is passionate about shows where actors play instruments such as Kinosian and Blair's Murder For Two as well as John Doyle's stagings of Sweeney Todd and Company. He hopes that such musicals, in addition to Hansard, Irglová and Walsh's Once, and Dave Malloy's ...Great Comet of 1812 will continue to pave the way for a new generation of shows in which instrumental aplomb becomes as integral as acting, singing, and dancing in making musical theatre a truly extraordinary experience.
Mark holds two bachelor's degrees from Michigan State University, a BFA in Acting and a BMUS in Music Composition. He was born and raised in Casper, Wyoming and is grateful for the strong arts presence it provided.