Mark Allen

Mark feels that writing his biography in the third person is a bit weird, but he feels he has to do it because that's the convention for this sort of thing. He hopes you forgive him.

Mark has been performing comedy for over five years, encouraging audiences to see the world through his eyes using his own special brand of logic. Although he is based in London where he performs most of his gigs, Mark has travelled all over the shop in the name of comedy - Great Yarmouth, Ludlow, Exeter, York, Glasgow, Nottingham, Manchester, Washington DC and Narnia, though he concedes that the latter may have been a dream. He still stormed it though, despite some aggressive heckling from a group of pissed-up fauns.

Mark regularly gigs for promoters such as Off the Kerb and Mirth Control, and notable venues in which he has performed include The Comedy Store, Up the Creek, Downstairs at the King's Head, The Comedy Café, The Chuckle Club and Soho Theatre (all in London) as well as The Frog and Bucket in Manchester, The Stand in both Edinburgh and Glasgow, Jesters in Bristol, Just the Tonic in Nottingham, and Komedia in Brighton. He also appeared in the final of London Comedy Festival Allstars competition, just by being funny.

In 2006, Mark performed his debut hour-long stand up show "Quite Good Britain" at the Edinburgh festival, which later transferred to The Hen and Chickens Theatre, London for a sell-out four-night run. In 2007 Mark returned to the Edinburgh festival with his second hour-long show "Mob Logic", which again transferred to The Hen and Chickens for a sell-out run.

As well as stand up, Mark also writes sitcoms, radio plays, comedy sketches and stage plays. He was part of a writing team for a pilot tv series for Talkback Productions and has also had work commissioned for BBC Talent's Urban Sketch Comedy initiative, as well as having a number of sketches shown on two series of "Shoot the Writers" on ITV1. He was also featured in Pulse Film's documentary series "Citizen Smith" on BBC4. Bully for him.

"Witty and absorbing" - Time Out
"A likeable manner, solid material and bags of potential" - Metro
"Allen is a comic with something new to say" - The Guardian