Mark Bringhurst has been acting since elementary school. In addition to playing leading roles in high school, college, and community theatre productions, he has placed in the top three in two New Jersey state acting competitions. As a founding member of Philadelphia longform group MakeOut Clinic, Mark has performed in the Philadelphia Improv Festival, the Dirty South Improv Festival, the Baltimore Improv Festival, Delaware’s Improv Mini-Fest, the Del Close Marathon in New York City, and in Washington, D.C. with D.C. ComedySportz.

After several years of shortform improv classes through ComedySportz in Philly, Mark began improvising with Delaware Comedy Theatre (the home of Delaware TheatreSports). He now one of the coaches for DCT North, a chapter of DCT based around Wilmington, Delaware. Mark has studied longform improv through PHIT and around the country with instructors including: Joe Bill, Mark Sutton, Zach Ward, Justin Tyler, Jonathan Gabrus, Jay Olson, Melissa Cathcart, and Asaf Ronen. In addition, he has has studied musical improv with a variety of instructors, including the lovely ladies of I Eat Pandas.

WHAT STUDENTS SAY ABOUT MARK:
"Mark is patient, smart and fun." - "He did a great job balancing the different objectives of his students" - "he was enthusastic not only about improv but about working with us" - " I specifically waited to take level 2 with him" - "gave everyone in the class attention"