Talent

Mark Czoske
Union: AEA/SAG*/AFTRA* (*must join) | Height: 6'1" | Hair: Grey | Eyes: Blue
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Voice Over: Commercial

MARK CZOSKE is happy to be a member of the Gray Talent Group. A Chicago improviser and actor for nearly thirty years, his IMDb film credits include Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, the award winning Slice of Pie, and Cadence. His most recent improv credits include Messing With A Friend,Natural Gas, Volante, Pub: Three Irishmen Walk Into a Bar…, and Starship Improvise. Stage credits include the Gift / Victory Gardens Theater’s smash hit The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, for which he received many fine reviews for his turns as The Judge and Caiaphas the Elder. Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune called the performance “riveting and transformative” and Catey Sullivan of the Windy City Times wrote: “…(an) astounding turn …one of the most angry, intense and astonishing monologues of the season.” Before that, he performed at the Drury Lane Theater in both The Odd Couple and A Christmas Carol, where he also received many fine reviews. He was a founding member of the Noble Fool Theater, and was involved in many of its productions including Woody Allen’s Don’t Drink the Water, Mirandolina, and Roasting Chestnuts. He was an original member of the long-running HBO spoof The Baritones and is a creator of one of Chicago’s longest-running shows, Flanagan’s Wake, which has taken him all over the country these last 18 years, most recently as its director in New Orleans. Before all this, he had worked with, or was a member of, many Chicago theaters, including Michael Gellman’s TheaterWorks, the Improv Institute, and the Synergy Theater, where he could be seen in such critically-acclaimed shows as An American Dream, The Lesson, Line, and (in collaboration with Redmoon Theater) the Marriage of Cristobal and Dona Rosita. Mark has done, and continues to do, many commercials and voice-overs, and although a lifelong resident of Chicago, has been known to frequent Aurora’s Comedy Shrine Theater to perform in their short-form improv show Whose Line. He currently teaches at the Second City, has performed in Comic Relief, is a published playwright, and is a firm believer in William H. Macy’s philosophy of acting: “Show up, wipe your feet at the door, and do your job.”