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Mark Schenfisch is a theatre and voice over actor and a musical theatre composer. He is currently collaborating with lyricist Sam Balzac and bookwriter Allison Frasca on a musical theatre adaptation of Felicia Day's webseries "The Guild" which saw its first public presentation at Dynasty Typewriter on February 23, 2025 with a phenomenal cast of stage and screen, including Phil LaMarr, Kirsten Vangsness, Anjali Bhimani, Rama Vallury, Lauren Lopez, Joey Richter, and Felicia Day herself reprising her role of Codex. The music pulls from rock, musical theatre, and video game influences, with nods to some of Mark's favorite video game soundtracks.
Mark is a member of the Advanced BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. In 2018 he presented an original surreal 10-minute musical "Like Father, Like Daughter" with collaborator Kate Douglas, in which a young girl tries to connect with her father despite the metaphysical distance between them. |
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Mark appeared in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS as the villain, Lightning. As the show was partially recorded during quarantine in 2020, some episodes necessitated voice over sessions from a closet booth in his apartment, lovingly blanketed for sound damping.
He has performed in over 160 performances of Murder for Two across 10 regional productions. 2022 and 2024 saw his first appearances as The Suspects at Winnipesaukee Playhouse in NH and Le Petite Theatre in NOLA, respectively. |
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!)
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 he is grateful for the strong musical foundation the city's support for the arts provided has to him and so many others.
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 he is grateful for the strong musical foundation the city's support for the arts provided has to him and so many others.