Mark Linn-Baker
Birth Place: St. Louis, MO, USA
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BIO
Broadway: The Music Man (Mayor Shinn), On the Twentieth Century, You Can't Take it With You, Relatively Speaking, Losing Louie, "Toad" in A Year With Frog and Toad, "Hysterium" in Forum (Drama League Honor, FANY Award), Neil Simon's Laughter On The 23rd Floor, David Henry Hwang's Face Value, Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury. Encores!: "Heinzie" in The Pajama Game. Joseph Papp's NYSF: All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Von Richthofen, The Laundry Hour, Alice in Concert (with Meryl Streep). Off-Broadway: Almost An Evening, Chesapeake (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), A Flea in Her Ear (Drama League Honor), Beth Henley's The Miss Fire Cracker Contest at MTC, Randy Newman's Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong, work for EST, LaMama, West Bank Theater, Phoenix Theater, among others. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Rep, ART Cambridge (founding company member), Arena, Center Stage. Film: Woody Allen’s Manhattan, Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year, Peter Bogdanovich's Noises Off and James L. Brooks' How Do You Know. Television: Showtime’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor, guest appearances on The Good Wife, Ally McBeal, Law And Order, L&O:CI, Full House, Cooper, Miami Vice, Moonlighting. Seven seasons as "Larry Appleton" on ABC's Perfect Strangers and opposite Melanie Griffith on WB's Twins. Mr. Linn-Baker is a co-founder/co-director of New York Stage and Film Company and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
STAGE CREDITS
Productions
Writing
Bookwriter/Lyricist
Movies
[ 1981 ] Victor LeBrum
[ 1982 ] Benjy Stone
[ 1988 ] Him
[ 1992 ] Tim Allgood
[ 2005 ] Mr. Farmer
[ 2009 ] Sam Klieber
[ 2010 ] Ron
[ 2018 ] Eugene Beltzer
TV Shows
Carlton Miller
Henry
Larry Weeks
Dr. Vincent Balicheck, Tom Wilder
Wally Stevens
Larry Appleton
Maxim Pierce
Sigmund Scrambler
Mark Linn-Baker
Alan Arnold
[ 2021-2024 ] Henry Farnsby
Awards and Nominations
winner
Mark Linn-BakerChesapeake
Mark Linn-BakerChesapeake
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Mark Linn-Baker has appeared on Broadway in 10 shows.
Mark Linn-Baker has not appeared in the West End.
Outstanding Solo Performance (Drama Desk Awards) for Chesapeake and Outstanding Solo Performance (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Chesapeake.
Mark Linn-Baker won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for Chesapeake.
Mark Linn-Baker has written 2 shows including The Laundry Hour (Bookwriter/Lyricist), The Laundry Hour (Bookwriter).
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