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- Mark, how long have you improvised?
- I've been improvising since 1992, when I worked with Canadian comedy troupe Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie at the Citadel Theatre's Teen Festival of the Arts.
- What one piece of advice should an improviser remember before they go on stage?
- Make the other guy look good.
- What's your favourite improv memory?
- The Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon, an annual 53 hour long show produced in Edmonton. I was the first performer to complete the entire thing without any sleep back in 1995. Not sure if that counts as a memory, since my recollections are somewhat fuzzy... I've "gone the distance" at the Soap-A-Thon nine more times since then.
- What's coming up for you?
- I'm currently recording the voice of the main character in "Mass Effect", a new video game from the good folks at Bioware Corp. It should be out in the next year or so.
- If people are in Canada why should they stop by Rapid Fire for shows and workshops?
- If they're in Canada, they'll need somewhere to hide from the biting cold and ravenous bears.
- How many degrees of separation between you and Kevin Bacon?
- 2 (It's true!)
- Would you rather receive an Oscar or wield a light saber?
- Armed with a light saber, I could probably force Tom Hanks to give me one of his Oscars.
