About Mark Bennington
Mark Bennington is an internationally known actor and photographer. He is best known as an actor for his early work on: Star Trek: Voyager, NYPD Blue, Charmed and more recently in Hindi films/Web-series: Bombay Begums, The Family Man, Kesari, Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran, Angrezi Medium, Bhanga Paa Le, Commando 3, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!, The Letters.... and upcoming Shamshera, RRR, and Inside Edge 3.After graduating from Mike Nichols's The New Actors Workshop (MFA acting program) in New York City, Mark worked in theater for 10 years, doing everything from Shakespeare to Ibsen to Coward and even doing experimental theater for 3 years with Tony Award winning director Diane Paulus's ensemble 'Project 400'. Theater highlights include working with: Sir Trevor Nunn in An Enemy of the People with Sir Ian McKellen, improv guru Paul Sills (founder of Second City) in Ghost & Love Stories and maverick writer/director Charles Marowitz playing 'William Shakespeare' in Marowitz's play Murdering Marlowe... also playing- 'Elyot' in Private Lives, 'Lomov' in A Marriage Proposal, 'Sebastian' in Twelfth Night, 'Howard Rudd' in Holy Ghosts and 'Bassino' in The Merchant of Venice to name a few. As a theater director, Mark mounted the original production Elizabeth Logun's On My Knees off-Broadway in NYC and Noel Coward's Mild Oats in Los Angeles at The Classical Theater Lab. In 2019, he returned to the theater after 16 years, directing Jeff Goldberg's The Mumbai Terror Attacks at The Royal Opera House in Mumbai and acting in Devika Rani: Goddess of the Silver Screen directed by Lillette Dubey . As a photographer, Mark's work has been published in The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, UpWorthy, CNN, Photo District News, GQ India, Varity, Verve Magazine, Man's World Magazine, Asian Photography, Worth Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The LA Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Platform Magazine, Forbes Magazine, The Times of India, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Boston Globe, Lucky Magazine, Self Magazine, BuzzFeed and many more. Mark authored of the acclaimed photography book "Living the Dream: The Life of the 'Bollywood' Actor" (HarperCollins) and in 2016 his photography project America 2.0 about Muslim youth in NYC received worldwide recognition. He was also an adjunct professor of photography at The S.I. Newhouse School of Media and Communication at Syracuse University and his work has been exhibited in Jerusalem, Rome, Tokyo, New York City, Hudson, San Fransisco, Berlin and London.Also as a drummer, Mark played over 400 shows and recorded 3 albums with the legendary LA roots/rock band '50cent Haircut' (Knitting Factory Records).Based in Mumbai, he married cultural anthropologist, Dr. Taapsi Ramchandani on December 21, 2013....