Mark Colson is an American actor and former theatre professor at Michigan State University.
Education Colson received his BFA at Webster University-Conservatory for the Performing Arts and his MFA from the National Theater Conservatory, Denver Center. He also studied at the Yale School of Drama and the British American Drama Academy in Oxford.
Career Colson's theatrical background includes work at The Denver Center, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Odyssey, Theatre Banshee in Los Angeles, The Hudson Theatre, The Boarshead Theatre, and The Sierra Repertory Theatre. In 2016, he played the role of Richard in the Purple Rose Theatre's world premiere of The Gaps in the Fossil Record Record. He has also performed as Iago in the American Shakespeare Collective's Othello.
In 2008, Colson was nominated for an Ovation Award for his performance of "Slim" in Theater Banshee's Of Mice and Men.
In 1992, Colson's film career began with the recurring role of Gabriel in the television series Days of Our Lives. His film and TV work includes Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Father, Mad Men, Demolition Man, Bones, and with Amy Poehler on Parks and Recreation.
Colson also used professional motion capture to play George A. Romero in the 2010 video game Call of the Dead.
Colson worked as a film and theater professor at Michigan State University. In 2015, he pioneered the Theatre2Film project which gives filmmaking and theater students a hands-on learning experience. A student-written piece is performed as a stage play then transformed into a screenplay to be acted by the same students.
Filmography YearTitleRoleNotes1993Demolition ManWarden William Smithers - Young1997 ProfilerCarter PooleEpisode - "Venom"1998Star Trek VoyagerDream AlienEpisode - "Waking Moments"1998WorkingPrisonEpisode - "The Consultant"1999Sabrina the Teenage WitchSecurity Attendant Episode - "Salem and Juliette"2000Judging AmyMotorcycle CopEpisode - "The Wee Hours"2000Locked Up Down Shorty'sMan At Bar2002Grounded for LifeP.E. CoachEpisode - "Eddie Said Knock You Out"2002Gilmore GirlsWestern Shirt ManEpisode - "Lorelai's Graduation Day"2002AliasOPS DirectorEpisode - "Cipher"2003The Curse and the Smoking JackerMark2003CarnivàleFarmerEpisode - "Tipton"2004AngelIzzyEpisode - "Not Fade Away," "Power Play," "You're Welcome"2005The King of QueensGusEpisode - "Deconstructing Carrie"2005Pendulum2006InvasionDeputy MungerEpisode - "Run and Gun," "The Sun Also Rises," "All God's Creature," "Redemption, "Power"2006Hi, Hello2006Flags of our FatherReporter (in LA ) #22006CSI: NYKevin GreenEpisode - "And here's to you, Mrs Azrael" 2007MarkedDr. Frederickson2007HeroesDr. ZernEpisode - "Chapter Three - 'Kindred'," "Chapter Two 'Lizards'," Chapter One - 'Four Months Later'"2008Passed the Door of DarknessMurphy McCasey2008My Own Worst EnemySecond PrisonerEpisode - "Love in All the Wrong Places"2009MediumBalding ManEpisode - "A Person of Interest"2010Lie to MeAngry ManEpisode - "Angry Man"2010Mad MenBill ShepardEpisode - "Chinese Wall"2011JustifiedHobart CurtisEpisode - "Debts and Accounts," "Brother's Keepers"2011Parks and RecreationHead ChairmanEpisode - "Jerry's Painting"2011BonesTodd BelacleetsEpisode - "The Change in The Game"2013Low Winter SunKen BensonEpisode - "Surrender"2016BansheeAaron BoedickerEpisode - "The Burden of Beauty," "Something Out of the Bible"2016OutsidersPat KerseyEpisode - "All Hell," "Day Most Blessed," "Trust," "Its Good to Be King"
Theatrical resume (since 2008) YearTitleRoleTheaterDirector2008Of Mice and MenSlimTheatre BansheeRebecca Marcotte2009The FieldMickTheatre BansheeSean Branney2010The CruciblePutnamTheatre BansheeSean Branney2010MacbethRossTheatre BansheeSean Branney2010The HostageI.R.A. OfficerTheatre BansheeMcKerrin Kelly2012OthelloIagoThe American Shakespeare Coll.Vincent Murphy2014Cyrano de BergeracCyranoMSU Fairchild TheatreEdward Daranyi2014Gravedigger (World Premiere)KurtWilliamston TheatreJohn Lepard2015Jacob Marley's Christmas CarolJacob MarleyWilliamston TheatreJulia Glander2016Gaps in the Fossil Record (World Premiere)RichardPurple Rose Theatre CompanyGuy Sanville2016PulpR.A. LyncroftWilliamston TheatreTony Caselli2018Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear (World Premiere)Sherlock HolmesPurple Rose Theatre CompanyGuy Sanville2019Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Fallen Soufflé (World Premiere)Sherlock HolmesPurple Rose Theatre CompanyMichelle Mountain
Union affiliations Actor's Equity Association: 1990 – present SAG-AFTRA: 1993 – present
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